Personal-protection measures against mosquitoes: A study of practices and costs in a district, in the Indian state of Orissa, where malaria and lymphatic filariasis are co-endemic

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 601-609

  Babu, B V ^a   Mishra, S ^a,b   Swain, B K ^a  

^a REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

^b SAMBALPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC CHEMICAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BED NET; COMMUNITY CARE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO; NORMAL HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CULICIDAE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT REPELLENTS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34748813072     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485907X193897     Document Type: Article

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