Child malaria treatment decisions by mothers of children less than five years of age attending an outpatient clinic in south-west Nigeria: an application of the PEN-3 cultural model.

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Published in Malar J on December 08, 2010

Authors

Juliet Iwelunmor1, Oladipo Idris, Adeniyi Adelakun, Collins O Airhihenbuwa

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, 315 Health and Human Development East, University Park, PA 16802, USA. jia111@psu.edu

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