Barriers to malaria control among marginalized tribal communities: A qualitative study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Sundararajan, Radhika ^a   Kalkonde, Yogeshwar ^b   Gokhale, Charuta ^b   Greenough, P Gregg ^a   Bang, Abhay ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Society for Education Action and Research in Community Health   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BED NET; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRADITIONAL HEALER; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL MARGINALIZATION;

EID: 84893342453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081966     Document Type: Article

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