Formative ethnographic research to improve evaluation of a novel water system in Ghana

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 801-805

  Alcorn, Ted E ^a   Opryszko, Melissa C ^a   Schwab, Kellogg J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; GHANA; INCIDENCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TECHNOLOGY; URBAN AREA; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; GHANA; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79958742213     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0460     Document Type: Article

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