Knowledge of malaria prevention and control in a sub-urban community in Accra, Ghana

International Journal of Tropical Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 61-69

  Appiah Darkwah, Isaac ^a   Badu Nyarko, Samuel Kofi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Community; Discourage; Ghana; Influence; Malaria; Respondent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 79960323483     PISSN: 18163319     EISSN: 1818779X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/ijtmed.2011.61.69     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Abdulla, S., N. Kikumbih, H. Masanja, H. Mshinda, R. Nathan and D. de Savigny et al., 2001. Mosquito nets, poverty and equity in rural southern Tanzania. http://www.mimcom.org.ukyifakara/poverty.pdf.
2. Agyepong, I.A., E. Wellington and M. Ablordey, 1996. Socio-Cultural and clinical factors in malaria transmission, Dangbe West. World Health Organization-Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)., Ministry of Health, Ghana.
3. Fai, F.Y and L. Lee, 1996. Perception and use of insect repellent among soldiers in the Singapore Armed Forces. Mil. Med., 161: 113-116.
4. Gilles, H.M., H.M. Grilles, L.J. Bruce-Chwatt and D.A. Warrell, 1993. Bruce-Chwatt's Essential Malariology. 3rd Edn., Edward Arnold, London, ISBN-13: 9780340571903, pp: 340.
5. Gyapong, M., J.O. Gyapong, J.A. Amankwa, J.T. Asiedu and E.K. Sorry, 1992. Acceptability of the use of insecticide impregnated bednets in an area of low bednet usage. Health Research Unit, Ministry of Health, Accra.
6. Inhorn, M.C. and P.J. Brown, 1997. Introduction. In: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease: International Health Perspectives, Inhorn, M.C. and P.J. Brown, (Eds.). 2nd Edn., Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Amsterdam, pp: 31-67.
7. Kaona, F., M.T. Siajunza, C. Manyando, S. Khondowe and G.K. Ngoma, 2000. Utilisation of malarial drugs at a household level: Results from a KAP study in Choma, Southern province and Mporokoso, northern province of Zambia. Central Afr. J. Med., 46: 268-270.
8. Katabarwa, M.N., P. Habomugisha, R. Ndyomugyenyi and S. Agunyo, 2001. Involvement of women in community-directed treatment with ivermectin for the control of onchocerciasis in Rukungiri district, Uganda: A knowledge, attitude and practice study. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol., 95: 485-494.
9. MacCormack, CP., 1984. Human ecology and behaviour in malaria control in tropical Africa. Bull. World Health Org., 62: 81-87.
10. MacCormack, CP., R.W. Snow and B.M. Greenwood, 1989. Use of insecticide-impregnated bed nets in Gambian primary healthcare: Economic aspects. Bull. World Health Org., 67: 209-214.
11. Marsland, R., 2006. Mosquito nets challenge tradition in Tanzania. Id21, Insights Health No. 9, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
12. McCombie, S.C, 1996. Treatment seeking for malaria: A review of recent research. Soc. Sci. Med., 43: 933-945.
13. Muela, S.H., 2000. Community understanding of malaria and treatment-seeking behaviour, in a Holoendemic area of South-Eastern Tanzania. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Basel.
14. Najera, J.A., 1994. The control of tropical diseases and socioeconomic development (with special reference to malaria and its control). Parasitologia, 36: 17-33.
15. Packard, R.M. and P. Gadehla, 1997. A land filled with mosquitoes: Fred L. Soper, the Rockefeller foundation and the Anopheles Gambiae Invasion of Brazil. Med. Anthropol.: Cross Cultural Stud. Health Illness, 17: 215-238.
16. Packard, R.M. and P.J. Brown, 1997. Rethinking health, development and malaria: Historicizing a cultural model in international health. Med. Anthropol.: Cross Cultural Stud. Health Illness, 17: 181-194.
17. Rashed, S., H. Johnson, P. Dongier, R. Moreau and C. Lee et al., 1999. Determinants of the Permethrin Impregnated Bednets (PIB) in the Republic of Benin: The role of women in the acquisition and utilization of PIBs. Soc. Sci. Med., 49: 993-1005.
18. TDR/WHO, 2004. Malaria fact sheet. 17th Program Report, Geneva, World Health Organization, Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.
19. Worrall, E., K. Hanson and S. Basu, 2002. The relationship between socio-economic status and malaria: A review of the literature. Health Economics and Financing Program, Working Paper 01/03, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London.