Good interventions that few use: Uptake of insect bite precautions in a group of Canadian forces personnel deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 209-215

  Schofield, Steve ^a   Crane, Fiann ^a   Tepper, Martin ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BED NET; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT REPELLENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOSQUITO NETS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

EID: 84856643675     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00205     Document Type: Article

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