Perceptions of symptoms of severe childhood malaria among Mijikenda and Luo residents of coastal Kenya.

Effective community based malaria control programmes require an understanding of current perceptions of malaria as a disease and its severe manifestations. Quantitative and qualitative surveys of mothers on the Kenyan Coast suggest that fever is conceptualised in biomedical terms whereas the aetiolo...

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Main Authors: Mwenesi, H, Harpham, T, Marsh, K, Snow, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1995