Keeping up appearances: Perceptions of street food safety in urban Kumasi, Ghana

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 952-964

  Rheinländer, Thilde ^a   Olsen, Mette ^a   Bakang, John Abubakar ^b   Takyi, Harriet ^b   Konradsen, Flemming ^a   Samuelsen, Helle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Food borne diseases; Ghana; Hygiene behavior; Perceptions of food quality; Qualitative study; Street food

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLEANING; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD SAFETY; GHANA; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRACTICE ACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMERCE; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD SERVICES; GHANA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRUST; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57049151774     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-008-9318-3     Document Type: Article

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