Linking traditional treatments of maternal anaemia to iron supplement use: An ethnographic case study from Pemba Island, Zanzibar

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-58

  Young, Sera L ^a   Ali, Said M ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Africa; Anaemia; Ethnography; Iron supplements; Traditional medicine; Zanzibar

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; MOTHER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; TANZANIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRON, DIETARY; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 28244474099     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2004.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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