Community perceptions on malaria and care-seeking practices in endemic Indian settings: Policy implications for the malaria control programme

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Das, Ashis ^a   Gupta, Rk Das ^b   Friedman, Jed ^a   Pradhan, Madan M ^c   Mohapatra, Charu C ^c   Sandhibigraha, Debakanta ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^c Government of Odisha   (India)

Author keywords

Community response; India; Malaria; Prevention; Sociocultural belief; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BED NET; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMMUNITY CARE; COST; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; INTOXICATION; MALARIA; MALE; POVERTY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEASONAL VARIATION; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRUST; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ENDEMIC DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; STATISTICS;

ENDEMIC DISEASES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872894286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-39     Document Type: Article

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