Barriers to dog rabies vaccination during an urban rabies outbreak: Qualitative findings from Arequipa, Peru

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Castillo Neyra, Ricardo ^a,b   Brown, Joanna ^b   Borrini, Katty ^b   Arevalo, Claudia ^b   Levy, Michael Z ^a,b   Buttenheim, Alison ^b,c   Hunter, Gabrielle C ^d   Becerra, Victor ^e   Behrman, Jere ^f   Paz Soldan, Valerie A ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Microred Mariano Melgar   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG BREED; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; NONHUMAN; PERU; PREVALENCE; RABIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NORM; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TOPOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; DOG; DOG DISEASES; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TRANSMISSION; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION; VETERINARY;

RABIES VACCINE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; MALE; OWNERSHIP; PERU; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; SUBURBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 85017018030     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005460     Document Type: Article

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