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Acute respiratory illness: popular health culture and mother's knowledge in the Philippines.

M Nichter1, M Nichter1.   

Abstract

Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is one of the chief causes of morbidity and mortality in the third world. This ethnographic study of ARI in the Philippines draws attention to local knowledge, sign recognition, perceptions of severity, and cultural factors influencing health care seeking. The mix of research methods used to generate data on these issues is discussed.

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Keywords:  Age Factors; Anthropology; Anthropology, Cultural; Asia; Attitude; Behavior; Beliefs; Child; Culture; Delivery Of Health Care; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Diseases; Focus Groups; Health; Health Services; Infections; Interviews; Knowledge; Medicine; Medicine, Traditional; Philippines; Population; Population Characteristics; Psychological Factors; Respiratory Infections; Rural Population; Signs And Symptoms; Social Sciences; Southeastern Asia; Technical Report; Treatment; Youth

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Year:  1994        PMID： 8041235     DOI： 10.1080/01459740.1994.9966099

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Med Anthropol        ISSN： 0145-9740


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Journal:  ISRN Pediatr       Date:  2012-01-24

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Journal:  BMC Public Health       Date:  2011-07-13       Impact factor: 3.295

4.  Understanding community perceptions, social norms and current practice related to respiratory infection in Bangladesh during 2009: a qualitative formative study.

Authors:  Fosiul A Nizame; Sharifa Nasreen; Leanne Unicomb; Dorothy Southern; Emily S Gurley; Shaila Arman; Mohammad A Kadir; Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner; Stephen P Luby; Peter J Winch
Journal:  BMC Public Health       Date:  2011-12-04       Impact factor: 3.295

5.  Revisiting community case management of childhood pneumonia: perceptions of caregivers and grass root health providers in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, northern India.

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Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2015-04-21       Impact factor: 3.240

6.  Care seeking for childhood pneumonia by rural and poor urban communities in Lucknow: A community-based cross-sectional study.

Authors:  Anurag Minz; Monika Agarwal; J V Singh; V K Singh
Journal:  J Family Med Prim Care       Date:  2017 Apr-Jun

7.  Getting to the Emergency Department in time: Interviews with patients and their caregivers on the challenges to emergency care utilization in rural Uganda.

Authors:  Ashley E Pickering; Heather M Dreifuss; Charles Ndyamwijuka; Mark Nichter; Bradley A Dreifuss
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