Comparing sociocultural features of cholera in three endemic African settings

BMC Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schaetti, Christian ^a,b   Sundaram, Neisha ^a,b   Merten, Sonja ^a,b   Ali, Said M ^c   Nyambedha, Erick O ^d   Lapika, Bruno ^e   Chaignat, Claire Lise ^f   Hutubessy, Raymond ^f   Weiss, Mitchell G ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Public Health Laboratory Ivo De Carneri   (Tanzania)

^d MASENO UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Community study; Eastern Africa; Endemic cholera; Sociocultural features

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; WATER;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CHILD; CHOLERA; CONGO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEHYDRATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYGIENE; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOCIAL CLASS; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION; VIGNETTE; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; AFRICA, EASTERN; CHOLERA; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84884181165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-206     Document Type: Article

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