Progress and challenges to control malaria in a remote area of Chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Haque, Ubydul ^a,b   Hashizume, Masahiro ^b   Sunahara, Toshihiko ^b   Hossain, Shahed ^a   Ahmed, Syed Masud ^c   Haque, Rashidul ^a   Yamamoto, Taro ^b   Glass, Gregory E ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BED NET; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; OCCUPATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FAMILY SIZE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; INSECTICIDE;

ANTIMALARIALS; BANGLADESH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77955046301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-156     Document Type: Article

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