The burden of traditional practices, ebino and tea-tea, on child health in Northern Uganda

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2183-2191

  Accorsi, Sandro ^a   Fabiani, Massimo ^a   Ferrarese, Nicoletta ^b   Iriso, Robert ^b   Lukwiya, Matthew ^b   Declich, Silvia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b St Mary's Hospital Lacor Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Africa; Ebino; Hospital; Tea tea

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANINE TOOTH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SUPERINFECTION; THORAX WALL; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UGANDA;

(NORTH); UGANDA;

EID: 0141682098     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00082-0     Document Type: Article

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