Social economic factors and malaria transmission in Lower Moshi, Northern Tanzania

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lowassa, Asanterabi ^a   Mazigo, Humphrey D ^b   Mahande, Aneth M ^c   Mwangonde, Beda J ^c   Msangi, Shandala ^c   Mahande, Michael J ^d   Kimaro, Epiphania E ^c   Elisante, Eliapenda ^e   Kweka, Eliningaya J ^b,c  

^a TANZANIA WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c TROPICAL PESTICIDES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^d TUMAINI UNIVERSITY   (Tanzania)

^e SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT;

ADULT; AEROSOL; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BED NET; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LARVA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCUPATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TANZANIA; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; LARVA; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84862767863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-129     Document Type: Article

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