"Before we used to get sick all the time": Perceptions of malaria and use of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) in a rural Kenyan community

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Dye, Timothy Dv ^a   Apondi, Rose ^b   Lugada, Eric S ^c   Kahn, James G ^d   Smith, Jacqueline ^e   Othoro, Caroline ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^c CHF International   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BED NET; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; WEATHER; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; KENYA; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 78649463185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-345     Document Type: Article

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