Two treatments, one disease: Childhood malaria management in Tanga, Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Foster, Deshka ^a   Vilendrer, Stacie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CONVULSION; HUMAN; MALARIA; PHYSICIAN; RURAL AREA; TANZANIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; URBAN AREA; AFRICAN MEDICINE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEIZURE;

CAREGIVERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH; SEIZURES; TANZANIA;

EID: 72849108859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-240     Document Type: Article

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