Social and cultural factors affecting uptake of interventions for malaria in pregnancy in Africa: A systematic review of the qualitative research

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Pell, Christopher ^a,b   Straus, Lianne ^a   Andrew, Erin V W ^a   Meñaca, Arantza ^a   Pool, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AFRICA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 79960578660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022452     Document Type: Article

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