An intervention for the promotion of hygienic feces disposal behaviors in a shanty town of Lima, Peru

Health Education Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 761-773

  Yeager, Beth A C ^a   Huttly, Sharon R A ^b   Diaz, Judith ^a   Bartolini, Rosario ^a   Marin, Margot ^a   Lanata, Claudio F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; EVALUATION; FECES; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME; HUMAN; PERU; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HYGIENE; SANITATION;

FECES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; PERU; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036908430     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/17.6.761     Document Type: Article

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