A Focused Ethnographic Study of Sri Lankan Government Field Veterinarians' Decision Making about Diagnostic Laboratory Submissions and Perceptions of Surveillance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Sawford, Kate ^a,b   Vollman, Ardene Robinson ^b   Stephen, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ETHNOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY; MOBILE PHONE; MOTIVATION; PILOT STUDY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SRI LANKA; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL TECHNICIANS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SRI LANKA; VETERINARIANS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84868151579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048035     Document Type: Article

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