Improving community health worker use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Zambia: Package instructions, job aid and job aid-plus-training

Malaria Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Harvey, Steven A ^a   Jennings, Larissa ^a   Chinyama, Masela ^b   Masaninga, Fred ^c   Mulholland, Kurt ^a   Bell, David R ^c  

^a United States Agency for International Development Georgia Tuberculosis Prevention Project   (United States)

^b Malaria Consortium   (Zambia)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB ADAPTATION; JOB EXPERIENCE; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHOTOGRAPHY; TRAINING; ZAMBIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY;

ADULT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; ZAMBIA;

EID: 52249096416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-160     Document Type: Article

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