Minyoo Matata – The Vicious Worm – A Taenia solium Computer-Based Health-Education Tool – in Swahili

Lack of knowledge is one of the main risk factors for the spread of the zoonotic parasite Taenia solium. The computer-based health-education tool ‘The Vicious Worm’ was developed to create awareness and provide evidence-based health education as a specific measure in control strategies. To increase...

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Autores principales: Trevisan, Chiara, Fèvre, Eric M., Owiny, Maurice, Ngere, Isaac, Vang Johansen, Maria
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5636612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28634004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2017.05.012
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author Trevisan, Chiara
Fèvre, Eric M.
Owiny, Maurice
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description Lack of knowledge is one of the main risk factors for the spread of the zoonotic parasite Taenia solium. The computer-based health-education tool ‘The Vicious Worm’ was developed to create awareness and provide evidence-based health education as a specific measure in control strategies. To increase the reach of the tool, a new version in Swahili was developed and can now be downloaded for free from http://theviciousworm.sites.ku.dk.
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spelling pubmed-56366122017-10-19 Minyoo Matata – The Vicious Worm – A Taenia solium Computer-Based Health-Education Tool – in Swahili Trevisan, Chiara Fèvre, Eric M. Owiny, Maurice Ngere, Isaac Vang Johansen, Maria Trends Parasitol Article Lack of knowledge is one of the main risk factors for the spread of the zoonotic parasite Taenia solium. The computer-based health-education tool ‘The Vicious Worm’ was developed to create awareness and provide evidence-based health education as a specific measure in control strategies. To increase the reach of the tool, a new version in Swahili was developed and can now be downloaded for free from http://theviciousworm.sites.ku.dk. Elsevier Science 2017-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5636612/ /pubmed/28634004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2017.05.012 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Fèvre, Eric M.
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Minyoo Matata – The Vicious Worm – A Taenia solium Computer-Based Health-Education Tool – in Swahili
title Minyoo Matata – The Vicious Worm – A Taenia solium Computer-Based Health-Education Tool – in Swahili
title_full Minyoo Matata – The Vicious Worm – A Taenia solium Computer-Based Health-Education Tool – in Swahili
title_fullStr Minyoo Matata – The Vicious Worm – A Taenia solium Computer-Based Health-Education Tool – in Swahili
title_full_unstemmed Minyoo Matata – The Vicious Worm – A Taenia solium Computer-Based Health-Education Tool – in Swahili
title_short Minyoo Matata – The Vicious Worm – A Taenia solium Computer-Based Health-Education Tool – in Swahili
title_sort minyoo matata – the vicious worm – a taenia solium computer-based health-education tool – in swahili
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5636612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28634004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2017.05.012
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