Community-directed mass drug administration is undermined by status seeking in friendship networks and inadequate trust in health advice networks

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue , 2017, Pages 37-47

  Chami, Goylette F ^a   Kontoleon, Andreas A ^a   Bulte, Erwin ^a,b   Fenwick, Alan ^c   Kabatereine, Narcis B ^c,d   Tukahebwa, Edridah M ^d   Dunne, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Compliance; Coverage; Mass drug administration; Social networks; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; PRAZIQUANTEL;

CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPLIANCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG; SOCIAL NETWORK; SURVEY;

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTIMACY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRUST; ADULT; COMMUNITY CARE; DRUG THERAPY; FRIEND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UGANDA;

MAYUGE; UGANDA;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ADULT; ALBENDAZOLE; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FRIENDS; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRAZIQUANTEL; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRUST; UGANDA;

EID: 85018897189     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.009     Document Type: Article

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