AIDS, order and 'best practice' in the South African workplace: Managers, peer educators, traditional healers and folk theories

African Journal of AIDS Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-20

  Dickinson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Business responses; Colonialisation; Indigenous knowledge; Social distance; Unitarist management; Worldviews

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONDOM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH EDUCATOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANAGER; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PEER REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOUTH AFRICA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WELLBEING; WORKPLACE;

EID: 27844575658     PISSN: 16085906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/16085900509490337     Document Type: Article

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