|
|
books
| book details |
Malaria in the Social Context: A Study in Western India
By (author) Lancy Lobo
|
| on special |
normal price: R 2 878.95
Price: R 2 590.95
|
| book description |
This book underscores how, apart from bacteriological factors, human behavioural characteristics as well as the socio-cultural factors that affect people’s lives contribute to the risk for and prevention of infection, with particular focus on malaria. It argues that the implementation of malaria-control measures can be successful only if it considers the human response to malaria and control measures. Any new tool which is introduced in a particular area — be it a new vaccine, a new drug combination, the promotion of impregnated bed nets, spraying of insecticides, or improved home management — will be effective and sustainable only if it is adapted to needs of the local population, i.e., if it makes sense to them. This volume also studies traditional knowledge systems with respect to health and malaria, arguing that local knowledge about infection is the result of an amalgamation of the biomedical and the traditional. By attempting to identify how traditional and biomedical elements interrelate in local illness concepts, it hopes to assist health interventionists in providing efficacious health education and awareness among people.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 21 Jan 2016
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 230
Dimensions | 216 x 138 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 430g
ISBN | 978-1-1386-6278-0
Readership Age |
BISAC | medical / health policy
| other options |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 2 999.95
Price | R 2 699.95
| on special |
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
|
Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 520.95
now: R 468.95
|
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.
|
|
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
|
|
|
