Cultural epidemiology of pandemic influenza in urban and rural Pune, India: a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify and compare sociocultural features of pandemic influenza with reference to illness-related experience, meaning and behaviour in urban and rural areas of India.

Design

Cross-sectional, mixed-methods, cultural epidemiological survey with vignette-based interviews. Semistructured explanatory model interviews were used to study community ideas of the 2009 influenza pandemic. In-depth interviews elaborated respondents' experience during the pandemic.

Setting

Urban and rural communities, Pune district, western India.

Participants

Survey of urban (n=215) and rural (n=221) residents aged between 18 and 65 years. In-depth interviews of respondents with a history of 2009 pandemic influenza (n=6).

Results

More urban (36.7%) than rural responde

SUBMITTER: Sundaram N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4265096 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature