Household environmental and behavioural determinants of childhood diarrhoea morbidity in the Tamale Metropolitan Area (TMA), Ghana

Folia Geographica Danica

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-68

  Osumanu, Issaka Kanton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Childhood morbidity; Diarrhoea; Environmental and behavioural factors; Ghana; Tamale

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548230400     PISSN: 00716693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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