Spoiled breast milk and bad water; Local understandings of diarrhea causes and prevention in rural Sierra Leone

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  McMahon, Shannon A ^a   George, Asha S ^a,b   Yumkella, Fatu ^c   Diaz, Theresa ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^c Dalan Development Consultants   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Cause; Diarrhea; Mende; Prevention; Qualitative; Sierra Leone; Temne; Water

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST MILK; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SIERRA LEONE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; PARENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SIERRA LEONE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84889989672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1172     Document Type: Article

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