Evaluation of community-based systems for the surveillance of day three-positive Plasmodium falciparum cases in Western Cambodia

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cox, Jonathan ^a,b   Dy Soley, Lek ^c,d   Bunkea, Tol ^c   Sovannaroth, Siv ^c   Soy Ty, Kheang ^e   Ngak, Song ^f   Bjorge, Steven ^g   Ringwald, Pascal ^g   Mellor, Steven ^b   Sintasath, David ^h   Meek, Sylvia ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MALARIA CONSORTIUM   (United Kingdom)

^c National Centre for Parasitology Entomology and Malaria Control   (Cambodia)

^d National Institute of Public Health   (Cambodia)

^e United States Agency for International Development Georgia Tuberculosis Prevention Project   (Cambodia)

^f FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^g WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^h Malaria Consortium   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Anti malarials; Artemisinin; Cambodia; Case management; Community health worker; Malaria; Operational research; Surveillance; Village malaria worker

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

CAMBODIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MICROSCOPY; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PILOT STUDY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REMUNERATION; TIME; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ARTEMISININS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAMBODIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MICROSCOPY; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PILOT PROJECTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REMUNERATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84904523001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-282     Document Type: Article

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