Applying medical anthropology in the control of infectious disease
Open Access
- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 3 (12) , 1020-1027
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00334.x
Abstract
This paper focuses on two roles of anthropology in the control of infectious disease. The first is in identifying and describing concerns and understandings of disease, including local knowledge of c...Keywords
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