Prevalent high-risk respiratory hygiene practices in urban and rural Bangladesh

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 762-771

  Nasreen, S ^a   Azziz Baumgartner, E ^a,b   Gurley, E S ^a,c   Winch, P J ^c   Unicomb, L ^a   Sharker, M A Y ^a   Southern, D ^a   Luby, S P ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coughing; Influenza; Non pharmaceutical intervention; Pandemic; Respiratory hygiene; Sneezing

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HYGIENE; INFLUENZA; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNEEZING; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUGH; FEMALE; HANDWASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK-TAKING; RURAL POPULATION; SNEEZING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

BANGLADESH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952270448     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02531.x     Document Type: Article

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