Assessing healthcare providers' knowledge and practices relating to insecticide-treated nets and the prevention of malaria in Ghana, Laos, Senegal and Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hoffman, Steven J ^a,b,c,d   Guindon, G Emmanuel ^e,f   Lavis, John N ^a,b,f   Ndossi, Godwin D ^g   Osei, Eric J A ^h   Sidibe, Mintou ⁱ   Boupha, Boungnong ^j  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre   (Tanzania)

^h West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use   (Ghana)

ⁱ Direction des Tudes de la Recherche et de la Formation   (Senegal)

^j Ministry of Health   (Laos)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; BED NET; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LAOS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SENEGAL; TANZANIA; AFRICA; ARTICLE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFRICA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 83255188943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-363     Document Type: Review

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