KORO SOCIAL RESPONSE (URBAN) : A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF NORTH BENGAL KORO EPIDEMIC

Social responses to Koro illness was studied from an urban population (n = 118) of Darjeeling district of West Bengal State, during and after the North Bengal Koro epidemic. The prevalent social cognition of Koro as a positive illness paradigm, both among the Koro-affected and non-affected families,...

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Autor principal: Chowdhury, Arabinda N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1992
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776098
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description Social responses to Koro illness was studied from an urban population (n = 118) of Darjeeling district of West Bengal State, during and after the North Bengal Koro epidemic. The prevalent social cognition of Koro as a positive illness paradigm, both among the Koro-affected and non-affected families, was the important social dynamics that helped the epidemic to spread as the illness in the region. The cognition-intensity related to the Koro vulnerability has diminished gradually with the passing of time, which was well corroborated with the gradually weaning incidence curve of Koro illness in the region.
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spelling pubmed-29809842011-07-20 KORO SOCIAL RESPONSE (URBAN) : A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF NORTH BENGAL KORO EPIDEMIC Chowdhury, Arabinda N. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Social responses to Koro illness was studied from an urban population (n = 118) of Darjeeling district of West Bengal State, during and after the North Bengal Koro epidemic. The prevalent social cognition of Koro as a positive illness paradigm, both among the Koro-affected and non-affected families, was the important social dynamics that helped the epidemic to spread as the illness in the region. The cognition-intensity related to the Koro vulnerability has diminished gradually with the passing of time, which was well corroborated with the gradually weaning incidence curve of Koro illness in the region. Medknow Publications 1992 /pmc/articles/PMC2980984/ /pubmed/21776098 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chowdhury, Arabinda N.
KORO SOCIAL RESPONSE (URBAN) : A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF NORTH BENGAL KORO EPIDEMIC
title KORO SOCIAL RESPONSE (URBAN) : A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF NORTH BENGAL KORO EPIDEMIC
title_full KORO SOCIAL RESPONSE (URBAN) : A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF NORTH BENGAL KORO EPIDEMIC
title_fullStr KORO SOCIAL RESPONSE (URBAN) : A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF NORTH BENGAL KORO EPIDEMIC
title_full_unstemmed KORO SOCIAL RESPONSE (URBAN) : A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF NORTH BENGAL KORO EPIDEMIC
title_short KORO SOCIAL RESPONSE (URBAN) : A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF NORTH BENGAL KORO EPIDEMIC
title_sort koro social response (urban) : a longitudinal study of north bengal koro epidemic
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776098
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