Malaria education from school to community in Oudomxay province, Lao PDR

Parasitology International

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-82

  Nonaka, Daisuke ^a   Kobayashi, Jun ^b,c   Jimba, Masamine ^a   Vilaysouk, Bounsou ^d   Tsukamoto, Katsuyuki ^b   Kano, Shigeyuki ^b   Phommasack, Bounlay ^e   Singhasivanon, Pratap ^c   Waikagul, Jitra ^c   Tateno, Seiki ^b   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d Oudomxay Provincial Health Office   (Laos)

^e Ministry of Health   (Laos)

^f KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Health education; Health promotion; Lao PDR; Malaria control; School health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; LAOS; MALARIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LAOS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 36248937848     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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