Assessing health-seeking behaviour and malaria prevention practices among communities in four districts of the Volta Region of Ghana

Assessing health-seeking behaviour and malaria prevention practices among communities in four districts of the Volta Region of Ghana

Abstract Background Malaria is a preventable disease that causes huge morbidity and mortality in malaria-endemic areas, especially among children and pregnant women. The malaria control programme focuses on the prevention of mosquito bites using insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and mosquito aerosol s...

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Main Authors: Verner N. Orish, Raymond Saa-Eru Maalman, Otchere Y. Donkor, Barbara Yordanis Henandez Ceruantes, Eric Osei, Hubert Amu, Prince Kubi Appiah, Kennedy Diema Konlan, Hadiru Mumuni, Eunji Kim, Siwoo Kim, Hajun Jung, Jones Ofori-Amoah, Philip Kofie, Martin Adjuik, Robert Kaba Alhassan, Ernestina Safoa Donkor, Francis Bruno Zottor, Margaret Kweku, Paul Amuna, So Yoo Kim, John Owusu Gyapong, the UHAS-Yonsei Project Team
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: BMC 2021
Subjects:
Malaria
Insecticide treated nets (ITNs)
Malaria prevention
Control
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghana
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b13d6a6e760843daacfc8b0662bc6021
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