Utilization and accessibility of healthcare on Pemba Island, Tanzania: Implications for health outcomes and disease surveillance for typhoid fever

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 144-152

  Kaljee, Linda M ^a   Pach, Alfred ^b   Thriemer, Kamala ^c   Ley, Benedikt ^d   Ali, Said M ^e   Jiddawi, Mohamed ^f   Puri, Mahesh ^b   Von Seidlein, Lorenz ^g   Deen, Jacqueline ^g   Ochiai, Leon ^b   Wierzba, Thomas ^b   Clemens, John ^h  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e Public Health Laboratory   (Tanzania)

^f Ministry of Health of Tanzania   (Tanzania)

^g MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; TYPHOID FEVER;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TANZANIA; TYPHOID FEVER;

SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 84872294435     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0288     Document Type: Article

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