Modern medicine and indigenous health beliefs: Malaria control alongside "Sadsana-phee" (animist belief system) in LAO PDR

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 622-629

  Shirayama, Yoshihisa ^a   Phompida, Samlane ^b   Kuroiwa, Chushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Ministry of Health   (Laos)

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EID: 33750205663     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
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