Social and cultural features of cholera and shigellosis in peri-urban and rural communities of Zanzibar.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Responding to the high burden of cholera in developing countries, the WHO now considers vaccination as a supplement to the provision of safe drinking water and improved sanitation in the strategy for cholera control in endemic settings. Cultural concepts of illness affect many aspects of public health. In the first step of a two-step strategy to examine determinants of cholera vaccine acceptance, this study identified social and cultural features of diarrhoeal illness for cholera control in endemic communities.

Methods

A cultural epidemiological study with locally adapted vignette-based interviews was conducted in two cholera-endemic communities of Zanzibar. A random sample of unaffected peri-urban (n = 179) and rural (n = 177) adults was interviewed to study comm

SUBMITTER: Schaetti C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3009639 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature