The treatment gap and primary health care for people with epilepsy in rural Gambia

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 378-383

  Coleman, Rosalind ^a   Loppy, Louie ^a   Walraven, Gijs ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

Attitude ethnology; Choice behavior; Epilepsy epidemiology therapy; Gambia; Medicine, Traditional; Patient acceptance of health care ethnology; Primary health care; Seizures therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

DISEASE CONTROL; EPILEPSY; HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EPILEPSY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RURAL AREA; SEIZURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; GAMBIA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

GAMBIA;

EID: 0036259245     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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