An ecological paradigm for a health behavior analysis of 'konzo', a paralytic disease of Zaire from toxic cassava

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1853-1862

  Boivin, Michael J ^a  

^a INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Ecology; Infectious disease; Sub Sahara Africa

Indexed keywords

CASSAVA; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH EDUCATION; MANIOC;

ARTICLE; CASSAVA; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; ECOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MODEL; MOTONEURON; PARALYSIS; PARAPLEGIA;

AGRICULTURE; CHILD; CYANIDES; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MANIHOT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARALYSIS;

ZAIRE;

EID: 0030781785     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00123-8     Document Type: Article

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