Psychosocial, behavioural and health system barriers to delivery and uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Tanzania - Viewpoints of service providers in Mkuranga and Mufindi districts

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mubyazi, Godfrey M ^a   Bloch, Paul ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGY; TANZANIA;

ANTIMALARIALS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TANZANIA;

EID: 84892400243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-15     Document Type: Article

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