Malaria knowledge, attitudes and practices among migrants from malaria-endemic countries in evrotas, Laconia, Greece, 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 33, 2015, Pages

  Evlampidou, I ^a,b   Danis, K ^b,c   Lenglet, A ^d   Tseroni, M ^e   Theocharopoulos, Y ^f   Panagiotopoulos, T ^g  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^d Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention ^*  (Netherlands)

^e Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP)   (Greece)

^f Independent Scholar   (Greece)

^g NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GREECE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BED NET; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MOSQUITO; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FEVER; GREECE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOUSING; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940180181     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.33.21208     Document Type: Article

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