Effect of a community-based delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy on treatment seeking for malaria at health units in Uganda

Public Health

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 516-525

  Mbonye, A K ^a   Schultz Hansen, K ^b   Bygbjerg, I C ^c   Magnussen, P ^d  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Costs; Intermittent preventive treatment; Malaria; New delivery system; Treatment seeking; Uganda

Indexed keywords

FANSIDAR; INSECTICIDE;

DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH SERVICES; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC ACCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILDBIRTH; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COST; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMIGRAVIDA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UGANDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PYRIMETHAMINE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SULFADOXINE; UGANDA;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

EID: 41749100121     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.07.024     Document Type: Article

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