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Malaria in the Social Context - A Study in Western India (Paperback)
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Malaria in the Social Context - A Study in Western India (Paperback)
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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.
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