The purity of water at hospital and at home as a problem of intercultural understanding

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-74

  Burghart, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intercultural dialogue; Nepal; Water purity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BABY FOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOKING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEPAL; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOKERY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEPAL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0030096123     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1996.10.1.02a00070     Document Type: Article

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