Foul wind, spirits and witchcraft: illness conceptions and health-seeking behaviour for malaria in the Gambia.

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Published in Malar J on April 24, 2015

Authors

Sarah O'Neill1,2, Charlotte Gryseels3, Susan Dierickx4, Julia Mwesigwa5, Joseph Okebe6,7, Umberto d'Alessandro8,9,10, Koen Peeters Grietens11,12,13

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. soneill@itg.be.
2: School of Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. soneill@itg.be.
3: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. cgryseels@itg.be.
4: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. sdierickxs@itg.be.
5: Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia. jmwesigwa@mrc.gm.
6: Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia. jokebe@mrc.gm.
7: Faculty of Medical sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. jokebe@mrc.gm.
8: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. udalessandro@mrc.gm.
9: Medical Research Council, Fajara, The Gambia. udalessandro@mrc.gm.
10: London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London, UK. udalessandro@mrc.gm.
11: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. kpeeters@itg.be.
12: School of International Health Development, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan. kpeeters@itg.be.
13: Partners for Applied Social Sciences (PASS) International, Tessenderlo, Belgium. kpeeters@itg.be.

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