Community participation as an interactive learning process: Experiences from a schistosomiasis control project in Zimbabwe

Acta Tropica

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 325-338

  Ndekha, Addmore ^a,b   Hansen, Ebba Holme ^a   Mølgaard, Per ^a   Woelk, Godfrey ^c   Furu, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Blair Research Institute   (Zimbabwe)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^d DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Community participation; Learning process; Schistosomiasis control; Social and cultural determinants; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

MOLLUSCACIDE;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; POKEWEED; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAIL; SOCIAL ASPECT; ZIMBABWE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONSUMER; COOPERATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYTOLACCA DODECANDRA; RURAL POPULATION;

ZIMBABWE;

ALIA; GASTROPODA; PHYTOLACCA; PHYTOLACCA DODECANDRA;

ANIMALS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOLLUSCACIDES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOLACCA DODECANDRA; RURAL POPULATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SNAILS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0037343984     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(02)00256-5     Document Type: Article

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