Parental attitude to children with sickle cell disease in selected health facilities in Irepodun Local Government, Kwara State, Nigeria

Studies on Ethno-Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-40

  Afolayan, Joel Adeleke ^a   Jolayemi, Florence Tayo ^b  

^a NIGER DELTA UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b Irepodun Local Government Secretariat   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Heredity; Incompatibility; Individual Differences; Pathologic Disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959872189     PISSN: 09735070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09735070.2011.11886389     Document Type: Article

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