Culturally perceived illness and guinea worm disease surveillance

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 101-106

  Brieger, William R ^a,d   Adekunle, Saubana A ^a,c   Oke, Ganiyu A ^a,b   Adesope, Azeez ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b Ifeloju Local Government   (Nigeria)

^c Peace Corps Nigeria ^*

^d Ifeloju Local Government   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CONTROL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; NIGERIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SELF REPORT; WORM INFECTION;

EID: 0030050774     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/11.1.101     Document Type: Article

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