Controlling parasites, understanding practices: The biosocial complexity of a One Health intervention for neglected zoonotic helminths in northern Lao PDR

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 215-223

  Bardosh, Kevin ^a,b   Inthavong, Phouth ^c   Xayaheuang, Sivilai ^d   Okello, Anna L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry   (Laos)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biosocial analysis; Lao PDR; Neglected Tropical Diseases; One Health; Soil transmitted helminths; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

DISEASE CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITIC DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; VACCINATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; LATRINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ONE HEALTH INTERVENTION; PARASITE CONTROL; PORK; POVERTY; RAW FOOD; SANITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; TAENIA SOLIUM; TROPICAL DISEASE; ANIMAL; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LAOS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY; PIG; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK REDUCTION; STANDARDS; TAENIASIS; TRANSMISSION;

LAOS;

SUIDAE; SUS; TAENIA SOLIUM; VERMES;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LAOS; MALE; NEGLECTED DISEASES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SANITATION; SUS SCROFA; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS;

EID: 84930190689     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.030     Document Type: Article

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