Review: Provider practice and user behavior interventions to improve prompt and effective treatment of malaria: Do we know what works?

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 326-335

  Smith, Lucy A ^a,b   Jones, Caroline ^a,b   Meek, Sylvia ^a,b   Webster, Jayne ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MALARIA CONSORTIUM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALARIA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 62949152982     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.326     Document Type: Review

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