Sanitation behavior among schoolchildren in a multi-ethnic area of Northern rural Vietnam

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Xuan, Le Thi Thanh ^a,b   Hoat, Luu ^a   Rheinländer, Thilde ^b   Dalsgaard, Anders ^b   Konradsen, Flemming ^b  

^a HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Multi ethnic; Sanitation use; Schoolchildren; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857137318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-140     Document Type: Article

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