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Rapid assessment procedures of malaria in low endemic countries: community perceptions in Jepara district, Indonesia.
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If case management continues to be the main strategy in malaria control program, the emic perspective of the people must be well-integrated into the program, and interventions to improve home-treatment should also be developed.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2003-02-01. It has received 35 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Malaria & Population.read more
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Sex differences in phenotypic plasticity affect variation in sexual size dimorphism in insects: from physiology to evolution.
TL;DR: Adaptive hypotheses proposed to explain sex differences in plasticity, including those that predict that plasticity will be lowest for traits under strong selection (adaptive canalization) or greatest for trait under strong directional selection (condition dependence), are explored.
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Malaria Management: Past, Present, and Future
TL;DR: The prospect of malaria eradication has been raised recently by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the potential negative impact of insecticide resistance, particularly on LLINs, for which only pyrethroids are available, needs to be monitored.
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Malaria vector control: from past to future
TL;DR: Issues associated with the present-day vector control strategies and state opportunities are raised with a focus on ongoing research and recent advances to enable to sustain the gains achieved so far.
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Methods of Rapid Evaluation, Assessment, and Appraisal
TL;DR: The authors hope that REAM becomes a valuable addition to evaluators' toolkits and introduce readers to a family of techniques with which they may be unfamiliar, highlight their strengths and limitations, and suggest appropriate contexts for use.
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Malaria distribution, prevalence, drug resistance and control in Indonesia.
TL;DR: This chapter examines malaria and its control in Indonesia from the earliest efforts by malariologists of the colonial Netherlands East Indies through the Global Malaria Eradication Campaign of the 1950s, the tumult following the coup d'état of 1965, the global resurgence of malaria through the 1980s and 1990s and finally through to the decentralization of government authority following the fall of the authoritarian Soeharto regime in 1998.
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A method of analysing interview transcripts in qualitative research.
TL;DR: A method of analysing qualitative interview data is outlined as a stage-by-stage process and the researcher in the field of qualitative work is urged to be systematic and open to the difficulties of the task of understanding other people's perceptions.
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The World Health Report 1999. Making a Difference
TL;DR: In this paper, a book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time and when you have no friends and activities, reading book can be a great choice.
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Child Malaria Treatment Practices Among Mothers in Kenya
TL;DR: A study of 883 mothers with children aged 0-9 years was undertaken in Kilifi district on the Kenyan coast in order to examine child malaria treatment practices, finding that childhood malaria was perceived as a mild, everyday illness, not preventable but treatable.
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Household cost of seeking malaria care. A retrospective study of two districts in Ghana
W. K. Asenso-Okyere,Janet Dzator +1 more
TL;DR: The cost of controlling malaria is lower than lost earnings or the value of output, compared with the average five days loss of output for the patient due to malaria morbidity and caretaking.
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Malaria: ethnomedical perceptions and practice in an Adangbe farming community and implications for control.
TL;DR: The results of a study into community perceptions and practice relating to causation, treatment and prevention of malaria in a rural Adangbe farming community in Southern Ghana are presented.
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