The effect of health care worker training on the use of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in rural western Kenya

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 953-961

  Ouma, P O ^a,d,e   Van Eijk, A M ^b   Hamel, M J ^a,d   Sikuku, E ^a   Odhiambo, F ^a   Munguti, K ^c   Ayisi, J G ^a   Kager, P A ^b   Slutsker, L ^d  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c JHPIEGO   (United States)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e NONE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Intermittent preventive treatment; Malaria; Pregnancy; Sulphadoxine pyrimethamine; Training

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR;

DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEALTH WORKER; MALARIA; MATERNAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; RURAL AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL CARE; PYRIMETHAMINE; RURAL HEALTH; SULFADOXINE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34547837461     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01876.x     Document Type: Article

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