Inherent illnesses and attacks: An ethnographic study of interpretations of childhood Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) in Manhiça, southern Mozambique

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Straus, Lianne ^a   Munguambe, Khátia ^b,c   Bassat, Quique ^a,b,d   MacHevo, Sonia ^b,c   Pell, Christopher ^a,e   Roca, Anna ^a,b   Pool, Robert ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Manhiça Health Research Center   (Mozambique)

^c EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD WELFARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SELF CONCEPT;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CAREGIVERS; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 79960121154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-556     Document Type: Article

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