Low perception of malaria risk among the Ra-glai ethnic minority in south-central Vietnam: Implications for forest malaria control

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Peeters Grietens, Koen ^a,b   Xuan, Xa Nguyen ^c   Van Bortel, Wim ^a   Duc, Thang Ngo ^c   Ribera, Joan Muela ^b   Ba Nhat, Truong ^d   Van, Ky Pham ^d   Le Xuan, Hung ^c   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^a   Erhart, Annette ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b PASS International   (Belgium)

^c Pharmaceutical Unit   (Viet Nam)

^d Provincial Malaria Station   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES DIRUSS; ANOPHELES MINIMUS; ARTICLE; BED NET; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEVER; FOREST; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RA GLAI; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON; VIET NAM; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PERCEPTION; RISK FACTOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PERCEPTION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; VIETNAM;

EID: 77249093240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-23     Document Type: Article

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