Gut Instincts: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices regarding Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Rural China

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Lu, Louise ^a   Liu, Chengfang ^b   Zhang, Linxiu ^b   Medina, Alexis ^a   Smith, Scott ^a   Rozelle, Scott ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; SOIL;

ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AWARENESS; BRUXISM; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEWORMING; DIGESTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LITERATURE; LOSS OF APPETITE; MALE; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PIGLET; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOIL; SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; ANIMAL; HEALTH AUXILIARY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CHINA; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SOIL;

EID: 84928789252     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003643     Document Type: Article

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