Awareness and use of insecticide-treated bed nets among children attending outpatient clinic at UNTH, Enugu - the need for an effective mobilization process

African Health Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-119

  Edelu, B O ^a   Ikefuna, A N ^a   Emodi, J I ^a   Adimora, G N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BED NET; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; NIGERIA; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BEDDING AND LINENS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; MOTHERS; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049456122     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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