Patterns of health seeking behavior during episodes of childhood diarrhea: A study of Tzotzil-speaking Mayans in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 489-495

  Granich, Reuben ^a,d   Cantwell, Michael F ^b   Long, Kurt ^c   Maldonado, Yvonne ^c   Parsonnet, Julie ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diarrhea; Health seeking behavior; Mayan; Mexico; Rapid ethnographic survey

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MEXICO; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY;

ADULT; CHILD; DIARRHEA; EPISODE OF CARE; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEXICO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

MEXICO;

EID: 0032925795     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00356-6     Document Type: Article

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