Socio-cultural features and help-seeking preferences for leprosy and turbeculosis: A cultural epidemiological study in a tribal district of Maharashtra, India

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Maske, Amar Prakash ^a,b   Sawant, Pravin Arun ^a,b   Joseph, Saju ^a,b   Mahajan, Uma Satish ^a,b   Kudale, Abhay Machindra ^a,b  

^a Maharashtra Association of Anthropological Sciences   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

Author keywords

ACSM; Cultural epidemiology; Help seeking; IEC; India; Leprosy; Socio cultural features; Tribal; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIA; LEPROSY; OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TOBACCO USE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85006200830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-015-0064-y     Document Type: Article

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