Knowledge, attitudes and practices about malaria among communities: Comparing epidemic and non-epidemic prone communities of Muleba district, North-western Tanzania

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kinung'Hi, Safari M ^a   Mashauri, Fabian ^a   Mwanga, Joseph R ^a   Nnko, Soori E ^a   Kaatano, Godfrey M ^a   Malima, Robert ^a   Kishamawe, Coleman ^a   Magesa, Stephen ^a   Mboera, Leonard E G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954164915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-395     Document Type: Article

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