The burden and determinants of self-reported acute gastrointestinal illness in an Indigenous Batwa Pygmy population in southwestern Uganda

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2287-2298

  Clark, S ^a   Berrang Ford, L ^a   Lwasa, S ^b   Namanya, D B ^c   Edge, V L ^d   Harper, S ^d   Carcamo, Cesar ^e   Ford, James ^e   Llanos, Alejandro ^e   Namanya, Didacus ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Acute gastrointestinal illness; Batwa; burden of illness; diarrhoea; Indigenous health; risk factors; Uganda

Indexed keywords

SOAP;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; POPULATION GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UGANDA; VOMITING; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POPULATION GROUPS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SOAPS; TOILET FACILITIES; UGANDA; VOMITING; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937193191     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268814003124     Document Type: Article

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