What role do traditional beliefs play in treatment seeking and delay for buruli ulcer disease?-insights from a mixed methods study in cameroon

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Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Peeters Grietens, Koen ^a,b   Toomer, Elizabeth ^b   Um Boock, Alphonse ^c   Hausmann Muela, Susanna ^b   Peeters, Hans ^b,d   Kanobana, Kirezi ^a   Gryseels, Charlotte ^a   Ribera, Joan Muela ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b PASS International   (Belgium)

^c Aide aux Lépreux Emmaüs Suisse   (Cameroon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; BIOMEDICINE; BURULI ULCER; CAMEROON; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DECENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEMALE; FIELD WORK; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; STUDY DESIGN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BURULI ULCER; CAMEROON; CULTURE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84862090151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036954     Document Type: Article

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