Knowledge, awareness and practices regarding dengue fever among the adult population of dengue hit cosmopolitan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Itrat, Ahmed ^a   Khan, Abdullah ^a   Javaid, Sunniya ^a   Kamal, Mahwash ^a   Khan, Hassan ^a   Javed, Sannia ^a   Kalia, Saira ^a   Khan, Adil Haleem ^a   Sethi, Muhammad Imran ^a   Jehan, Imtiaz ^b  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PAKISTAN; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TELEVISION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PAKISTAN; POPULATION GROUPS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 50349083300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002620     Document Type: Article

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