Mobilizing community-based health insurance to enhance awareness & prevention of airborne, vector-borne & waterborne diseases in rural India

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 142, Issue AUGUST, 2015, Pages 151-164

  Panda, Pradeep ^a   Chakraborty, Arpita ^a   Dror, David M ^a,b  

^a Micro Insurance Academy   (India)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Airborne disease; Awareness campaign; Community based health insurance; Preventive healthcare; Rural India; Vector borne disease; Waterborne disease

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SELF HELP; VECTOR BORNE DISEASE; WATERBORNE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; INSECT VECTOR; PATHOGENICITY; RURAL POPULATION; WATERBORNE DISEASES;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; WATERBORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84940852516     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-5916.164235     Document Type: Article

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