The Yoruba farm market as a communication channel in guinea worm disease surveillance

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 233-243

  Brieger, William R ^b   Kendall, Carl ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Farm markets; Guinea worm; Local knowledge; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MARKET; NIGERIA; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; TIME; WORM INFECTION;

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; DRACUNCULIASIS CONTROL; LOCAL KNOWLEDGE; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM;

NIGERIA, OYO STATE;

EID: 0029668699     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00098-4     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Mauser J. S. and Kramer S., Mauser and Bahn. Epidemiology - An Introductory Text, 2nd Edn. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1985.
2. WHO Center for Research, Training and Control of Dracunculiasis/Centers for Disease Control. Guidelines for Surveillance in Dracunculiasis Eradication Programs. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, 1989.
3. Henderson D. A. Principles and lessons from the smallpox eradication programme. Bull. Wld Hlt h Organ. 65, 535, 1987.
4. Richards F. and Hopkins D. Surveillance: the foundation for control and elimination of dracunculiasis in Africa. Int. J. Epidemiol. 18, 934, 1989.
5. Hopkins D. R. Dracunculiasis: an eradicable scourge. Epidemiol, Rev. 5, 208, 1983.
6. Paul J. E. A Field Test Report of Implementation Planning and a Cost-Benefit Model for Guinea Worm Eradication in Pakistan, WASH Field Report No. 231. USAID, Water & Sanitation for Health Project, Arlington, VA, 1988.
7. Watts S. J. The comparative study of patterns of guinea worm prevalence as a guide to control strategies. Soc. Sci. Med. 23, 975, 1986.
8. Watts S. J. Dracunculiasis in Africa in 1986: its geographic extent, incidence, and at-risk population. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 37, 119, 1987.
9. Hopkins D. R. Dracunculiasis eradication: the tide has turned. The Lancet ii, 148, 1988.
10. Bohannan P. and Dalton G. Markets in Africa, Eight Subsistence Economies in Transition, pp. 1-32. Anchor Books, Doubleday Inc., Garden City, New York, 1965.
11. Hodder B. W. Markets in Yorubaland. In Markets in West Africa, Studies of Markets and Trade among the Yoruba and Ibo (Edited by Hodder B. W. and Ukwu U. I.), pp. 3-109. University of Ibadan Press, Ibadan, 1969.
12. King L. J. Central Place Theory. Scientific Geography Series, Vol. 1. Sage Publications, Beverley Hills, 1984.
13. Smith C. A. Regional economic systems: linking geographical models and socioeconomic problems. In Regional Analysis (Edited by Smith C. A.), pp. 1-63. Academic Press, New York, 1976.
14. Smith R. H. T. Market-Place Trade - Periodic Markets, Hawkers, and Trades in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, pp. 167-170. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1978.
15. Bascom W. The Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1969.
16. Filani M. O. and Richards P. Periodic market systems and rural development: the Ibarapa case study, Nigeria. Savanna 5, 149, 1976.
17. Glaser B. G. and Strauss A. L. The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. Aldine de Gruyter, New York, 1967.
18. Foster S. O., Ward N. A., Joarder A. K., Arnt N., Tarantola D., Rahman M. and Hughes K. Smallpox surveillance in Bangladesh: 1 - development of surveillance containment strategy. Int. J. Epidemiol. 9, 329, 1980.
19. De Quadros C. A., Weithaler K. L. and Siembn J. Active search operations for smallpox - an Ethiopian experience. Int. J. Epidemiol. 2, 237, 1973.
20. Robertson A. F. People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development, pp. 182-191. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984.
21. Akpovi S. U., Johnson D. C. and Brieger W. R. Guineaworm control: testing the efficacy of health education in primary health care. Int. J. Hlth Educ. 24, 229, 1981.
22. Krueger R. A. Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA, 1988.
23. Brieger W. R. and Kendall C. Learning from local knowledge to improve disease surveillance: perceptions of the guinea worm illness experience. Hlth Educ. Res. 7, 471, 1992.
24. Daly M. T., Filani M. O. and Richards P. The Ibarapa Planning Atlas, Processes and Problems of Rural Development of Ibarapa Division of Oyo State of Nigeria. Technical Report No. 1 Department of Geography, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.
25. Guyer J. I. The Organizational Plan of Traditional Farming: Idere, Western Nigeria. A thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1972.
26. Ewoigbokhan S. E. and Brieger W. R. Village health worker attrition and function levels in the Ile-Ife area of Nigeria. Int. Q. Commun. Hlth Educ. 14, 323, 1993.