High levels of misconceptions and stigma in a community highly endemic for podoconiosis in southern Ethiopia

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 439-444

  Yakob, Bereket ^a   Deribe, Kebede ^b   Davey, Gail ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Fayyaa Integrated Development Association   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Attitude; Elephantiasis; Ethiopia; Knowledge; Podoconiosis; Practice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CLAY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PODOCONIOSIS; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SHOE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIGMA; TROPICAL DISEASE; VOLCANO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELEPHANTIASIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RURAL HEALTH; SHOES; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 41749118284     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.01.023     Document Type: Article

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