Anthropological and socio-medical health care research in developing countries

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 147-161

  Kroeger, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0020646844     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(83)90248-4     Document Type: Article

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