Health-seeking behaviors and self-care practices of Dominican women with lymphoedema of the leg: implications for lymphoedema management programs

BACKGROUND: In the Dominican Republic, a Latin American country with filariasis-endemic areas, more than 63,000 people have lymphatic filariasis and more than 400,000 people are at risk of future infection. In this paper, we explore the health beliefs, health-seeking behaviors and self-care practice...

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Autores principales: Person, Bobbie, Addiss, David G, Bartholomew, L Kay, Meijer, Cecilia, Pou, Victor, van den Borne, Bart
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17187660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2883-5-13

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17187660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2883-5-13

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