Access and barriers to measures targeted to prevent malaria in pregnancy in rural Kenya

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 208-217

  Gikandi, Priscilla W ^a   Noor, Abdisalan M ^a   Gitonga, Carol W ^a   Ajanga, Antony A ^a   Snow, Robert W ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Insecticide treated nets; Intermittent presumptive treatment; Kenya; Malaria; Pregnancy; Sulphadoxine pyrimethamine

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

ALGORITHM; DISEASE CONTROL; GIS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; INSECTICIDE; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; RURAL AREA;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PROPHYLAXIS; RURAL AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL CARE; PYRIMETHAMINE; RURAL POPULATION; SULFADOXINE;

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

EID: 39849084358     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01992.x     Document Type: Article

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