Evaluating health workers' potential resistance to new interventions: A role for discrete choice experiments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Lagarde, Mylene ^a   Paintain, Lucy Smith ^a   Antwi, Gifti ^b   Jones, Caroline ^a   Greenwood, Brian ^a   Chandramohan, Daniel ^a   Tagbor, Harry ^a,b   Webster, Jayne ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MATERNAL CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDWIFE ATTITUDE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; AGING; DECISION MAKING; DRUG COMBINATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MIDWIFE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STATISTICS;

PYRIMETHAMINE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ADULT; AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MALARIA; MIDWIFERY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 80051854701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023588     Document Type: Article

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