Social and cultural features of cholera and shigellosis in peri-urban and rural communities of Zanzibar

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Schaetti, Christian ^a,b   Khatib, Ahmed M ^c   Ali, Said M ^d   Hutubessy, Raymond ^e   Chaignat, Claire Lise ^e   Weiss, Mitchell G ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Ministry of Health Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

^d Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Zanzibar   (Tanzania)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTACID AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DRINKING WATER; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE CARRIER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REHYDRATION; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHIGELLOSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLERA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CARE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649321572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-339     Document Type: Article

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