Controlling blinding trachoma in the Egyptian Delta: Integrating clinical, epidemiological and anthropological understandings

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 99-118

  Rubinstein, Robert A ^a   D Lane, Sandra ^b   Sallam, Sunny A ^b   Sheta, Ahmed S ^b   Gad, Zahira M ^b   Sherif, Aida R ^b   Selim, Mohammed ^b   Gad, Ashry ^b   Shama, Ahmed ^b   Schachter, Julius ^b   Dawson, Chandler R ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOAP; WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHNOGRAPHY; FACE; FACE WASHING; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; TRACHOMA;

EID: 33745684128     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: 14692910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470600738674     Document Type: Review

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