| dc.contributor.author | Christian Schaetti, Neisha Sundaram, Sonja Merten, Said M Ali, Erick O Nyambedha, Bruno Lapika, Claire-Lise Chaignat, Raymond Hutubessy, Mitchell G Weiss | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-27T08:27:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-07-27T08:27:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-12-01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.maseno.ac.ke/handle/123456789/1597 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background
Cholera mainly affects developing countries where safe water supply and sanitation infrastructure are often rudimentary. Sub-Saharan Africa is a cholera hotspot. Effective cholera control requires not only a professional assessment, but also consideration of community-based priorities. The present work compares local sociocultural features of endemic cholera in urban and rural sites from three field studies in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (SE-DRC), western Kenya and Zanzibar.
Methods
A vignette-based semistructured interview was used in 2008 in Zanzibar to study sociocultural features of cholera-related illness among 356 men and women from urban and rural communities. Similar cross-sectional surveys were performed in western Kenya (n = 379) and in SE-DRC (n = 360) in 2010. Systematic comparison across all … | en_US |
| dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en_US |
| dc.subject | Endemic cholera, Sociocultural features, Community study, Eastern Africa | en_US |
| dc.title | Comparing sociocultural features of cholera in three endemic African settings | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
