Knowledge of malaria and its association with malaria-related behaviors - Results from the Malaria Indicator Survey, Ethiopia, 2007

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Hwang, Jimee ^a,b   Graves, Patricia M ^c   Jima, Daddi ^d   Reithinger, Richard ^e   Patrick Kachur, S ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UCSF Global Health Sciences   (United States)

^c CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^d ETHIOPIAN PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^e US Agency for International Development   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BED NET; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; SEASON; SEX RATIO; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BED; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

INSECTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEDDING AND LINENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955362155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011692     Document Type: Article

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