Lack of patient risk counselling and a broader provider training affect malaria control in remote Somalia Kenya border: Qualitative assessment

Global Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 240-252

  Asgary, Ramin ^a   Grigoryan, Zoya ^a   Naderi, Ramesh ^a   Allan, Richard ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The MENTOR Initiative ^*  (France)

Author keywords

community leaders; malaria; malaria misdiagnosis; malaria risk counselling; qualitative; training health provider

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; QUININE;

ADULT; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; BED NET; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MONOTHERAPY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOMALIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT DURATION; WASTE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOMALIA;

EID: 84857158001     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2011.643412     Document Type: Article

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