Increasing coverage and decreasing inequity in insecticide-treated bed net use among rural Kenyan children

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1341-1348

  Noor, Abdisalan M ^a   Amin, Abdinasir A ^a   Akhwale, Willis S ^b   Snow, Robert W ^a,c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BED NET; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MARKETING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADULT; ADVERTIZING; BED; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MOSQUITO; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; BEDDING AND LINENS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34548436215     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040255     Document Type: Article

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