Exploring provider and community responses to the new malaria diagnostic and treatment regime in Solomon Islands

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wijesinghe, Rushika S ^a   Atkinson, Jo An M ^a   Bobogare, Albino ^b   Wini, Lyndes ^b   Whittaker, Maxine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Ministry of Health   (Solomon Islands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; CHLOROQUINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; RISK FACTOR; SOLOMON ISLANDS; AGED; CHILD; DRUG COMBINATION; INTERVIEW; MELANESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MELANESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650988938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-3     Document Type: Article

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