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Cultural logics: a key issue in a Kaizen approach for malaria elimination

Authors: Susanna Hausmann-Muela, Koen Peeters Grietens, Joan Muela Ribera

Published in: Malaria Journal | Special Issue 1/2012

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Patients’adherence to malaria treatment is a key issue in malaria control and elimination. But adherence remains problematic even when drug supply is good, putting human behaviour at the forefront of interest. The current approach to behaviour change strongly relies on communication interventions [1]. Such information and communication for behaviour change addresses people’s explicit and individual knowledge, on the premise that deficient or incorrect medical knowledge can be corrected and change behaviour. It hardly considers people’s implicit and collective knowledge or cultural logicsthat underlie concepts and practices. …

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Title: Cultural logics: a key issue in a Kaizen approach for malaria elimination
Authors: Susanna Hausmann-Muela
Koen Peeters Grietens
Joan Muela Ribera
Publication date: 01-10-2012
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Malaria Journal / Issue Special Issue 1/2012
Electronic ISSN: 1475-2875
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-11-S1-P44

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