Social economic factors and malaria transmission in Lower Moshi, Northern Tanzania
Open Access
- 28 June 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Parasites & Vectors
- Vol. 5 (1) , 129
Abstract
For many years social economic status has been used as an indicator to characterize malaria treatment seeking behaviors of communities and their adherence to malaria control programs. The present study was therefore conducted to assess the influence of household social economic status, knowledge, attitude and practice on treatment seeking behaviors, distance to health facilities and vector control measures in the Lower Moshi area, northern Tanzania.Keywords
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