Community perceptions of malaria and malaria treatment behaviour in a rural district of Ghana: Implications for artemisinin combination therapy

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Asante, Kwaku P ^a,c   Abokyi, Livesy ^a   Zandoh, Charles ^a   Owusu, Ruth ^a   Awini, Elizabeth ^b   Sulemana, Abubakari ^a   Amenga Etego, Seeba ^a   Adda, Robert ^a   Boahen, Owusu ^a   Segbaya, Sylvester ^b   Mahama, Emmanuel ^a   Bart Plange, Constance ^b   Chandramohan, Daniel ^c   Owusu Agyei, Seth ^a,c  

^a KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954406626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-409     Document Type: Article

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