Designing malaria surveillance strategies for mobile and migrant populations in Nepal: A mixed-methods study

Malaria Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Smith, Jennifer L ^a   Ghimire, Prakash ^b   Rijal, Komal Raj ^b   Maglior, Alysse ^a   Hollis, Sara ^a   Andrade Pacheco, Ricardo ^a   Das Thakur, Garib ^c   Adhikari, Nabaraj ^b   Thapa Shrestha, Upendra ^b   Banjara, Megha Raj ^b   Lal, Bibek Kumar ^c   Jacobson, Jerry O ^a   Bennett, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^c Minister for Health and Population Nepal   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Focus group discussion; Imported malaria cases; Key informants' interview; Malaria elimination; Mobile migrant populations (MMPs); Nepal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIGRANT; NEPAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ERADICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, IMPORTED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE ERADICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85065254113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-019-2791-1     Document Type: Article

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