Developing Culturally Appropriate Interventions to Prevent Person-to-Person Transmission of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: Cultural Epidemiology in Action

When Culture Impacts Health: Global Lessons for Effective Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 329-337

  Islam, M Saiful ^a   Luby, Stephen P ^a,b   Gurley, Emily S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior change message; Cultural epidemiology; Culture; Family caregivers; Nipah virus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902927202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-415921-1.00028-2     Document Type: Chapter

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