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Understanding the role of disease knowledge and risk perception in shaping preventive behavior for selected vector-borne diseases in Guyana
BACKGROUND: Individual behavior, particularly choices about prevention, plays a key role in infection transmission of vector-borne diseases (VBDs). Since the actual risk of infection is often uncertain, individual behavior is influenced by the perceived risk. A low risk perception is likely to dimin...
Autores principales: | Aerts, Céline, Revilla, Mélanie, Duval, Laetitia, Paaijmans, Krijn, Chandrabose, Javin, Cox, Horace, Sicuri, Elisa |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7170267/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32251455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008149 |
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