"People will say that i am proud": a qualitative study of barriers to bed net use away from home in four Ugandan districts

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Monroe, April ^a   Harvey, Steven A ^a   Lam, Yukyan ^a   Muhangi, Denis ^b   Loll, Dana ^a   Kabali, Asaph Turinde ^c   Weber, Rachel ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c Team Initiatives Ltd Teachers House   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Barriers; Conflict; Funerals; Insecticide Treated Bednet; Malaria; Net use; Qualitative research; Sleeping outdoors; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BED NET; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; HOME; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSECTICIDE TREATED BED NET; LIFE EVENT; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVENTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SLEEP; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; TRAVEL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; TRAVEL; UGANDA;

EID: 84898045155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-82     Document Type: Article

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