Morbidity, mortality, and health-seeking behaviour in rural Senegal: local understanding and representation of disease across method of treatment
Background: Ethnomedical nosologies in many parts of the world, including west Africa, encompass both naturalistic (related to mechanisms of contagion and pollution) and personalistic (related to spiritual and supernatural malevolence) causes that are at times fundamentally at odds with the biomedi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-05-01
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| Series: | The Lancet Global Health |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X15700379 |