Factors impeding the acceptability and use of malaria preventive measures: Implications for malaria elimination in eastern Rwanda

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ingabire, Chantal Marie ^a,b   Rulisa, Alexis ^b,c   Van Kempen, Luuk ^c   Muvunyi, Claude ^d   Koenraadt, Constantianus J M ^e   Van Vugt, Michele ^f   Mutesa, Leon ^d   Van Den Borne, Bart ^a   Alaii, Jane ^g  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RWANDA BIOMEDICAL CENTER   (Rwanda)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g Context Factor Solutions ^*  (Kenya)

Author keywords

Bedbugs; CBHI; Community engagement; Health care seeking; IRS; LLIN; Malaria elimination; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BED NET; BEDBUG BITE; CHICKEN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MOSQUITO; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PROGRAM ACCEPTABILITY; RWANDA; SEASON; SLEEP; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VEGETABLE BREEDING; WARMING; AGED; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSECTICIDE TREATED NET; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RWANDA;

EID: 84926505653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-0659-6     Document Type: Article

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