Acceptability - A neglected dimension of access to health care: Findings from a study on childhood convulsions in rural Tanzania

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Dillip, Angel ^a,b,c   Alba, Sandra ^b   Mshana, Christopher ^a   Hetzel, Manuel W ^d,g   Lengeler, Christian ^b,c   Mayumana, Iddy ^a   Schulze, Alexander ^e   Mshinda, Hassan ^f   Weiss, Mitchell G ^b,c   Obrist, Brigit ^b,c  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^e NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^f Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology   (Tanzania)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN MEDICINE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; INTERVIEW; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SEASON; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TANZANIA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIMALARIALS; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SEASONS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SOCIAL CLASS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84860876094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-113     Document Type: Article

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