The Cultural Anthropological Contribution to Communicable Disease Epidemiology

When Culture Impacts Health: Global Lessons for Effective Health Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 43-52

  Luby, Stephen P ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Communicable disease; Cultural anthropology; Epidemiologist led research group in Bangladesh

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902946659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-415921-1.00005-1     Document Type: Chapter

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