Coping with a nutrient deficiency: Cultural models of vitamin A deficiency in Northern Niger

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 195-227

  Blum, Lauren S ^a   Pelto, Gretel H ^b   Pelto, Pertti J ^c,d  

^a ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion of medical beliefs; Ethnography; Hausa people; Nightblindness; Xerophthalmia

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HEAT; HUMAN; INFECTION; MEASLES; NIGER; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; XEROPHTHALMIA;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DATA COLLECTION; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; DIET; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; NIGER; NIGHT BLINDNESS; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 4544283939     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740490487080     Document Type: Review

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