Zoonotic diseases: who gets sick, and why? Explorations from Africa

Critical Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 97-110

  Dzingirai, Vupenyu ^a   Bett, Bernard ^b   Bukachi, Sally ^b   Lawson, Elaine ^c   Mangwanya, Lindiwe ^a   Scoones, Ian ^d   Waldman, Linda ^d   Wilkinson, Annie ^d   Leach, Melissa ^d   Winnebah, Tom ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e NJALA UNIVERSITY   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

Africa; One Health; social difference; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYNAMICS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; LASSA FEVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTOMYS NATALENSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SCHOOL CHILD; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; YOUNG ADULT; ZIMBABWE; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 84969850185     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2016.1187260     Document Type: Article

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