Digging for care-seeking behaviour among gold miners in the Guyana hinterland: a qualitative doer non-doer analysis of social and behavioural motivations for malaria testing and treatment

Abstract Background Although Guyana has made significant progress toward malaria control, limited access to malaria testing and treatment services threatens those gains. Mining activities create breeding environments for mosquitoes, and the migrant and mobile mining populations are hard to reach wit...

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Main Authors: Shirley D. Yan, Jennifer Orkis, Saifra Khan Sohail, Sean Wilson, TrishAnn Davis, J. Douglas Storey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:Malaria Journal
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-020-03289-3