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Malaria in the Social Context

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Malaria in the Social Context

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A Study in Western India

Malaria in the Social Context

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Malaria in the Social Context book

A Study in Western India
ByLancy Lobo
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 31 December 2012
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge India
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203085349
Pages 230
eBook ISBN 9780203085349
Subjects Area Studies, Development Studies, Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
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Lobo, L. (2010). Malaria in the Social Context: A Study in Western India (1st ed.). Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203085349

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|32 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

Surat District: Health, Illness, and Malaria

chapter 3|35 pages

People’s Perceptions on Fever, Mosquitoes, and Malaria

chapter 4|30 pages

Malaria: Traditional and Modern Healthcare

chapter 5|17 pages

Findings of the Validation Study

chapter 6|28 pages

Impact of Trial Interventions

chapter 7|23 pages

Overview and Observations

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