Stigma towards a Neglected Tropical Disease: Felt and enacted Stigma Scores among Podoconiosis Patients in Northern Ethiopia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Deribe, Kebede ^a,b   Tomczyk, Sara ^c   Mousley, Elizabeth ^a   Tamiru, Abreham ^d   Davey, Gail ^a  

^a BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d International Orthodox Christian Charities ^*  (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Ethiopia; NTD; Podoconiosis; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELEPHANTIASIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMICS; STEREOTYPING; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELEPHANTIASIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889984139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1178     Document Type: Article

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