Rapid ethnographic assessment: applications in a diarrhea management program.

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Published in Soc Sci Med on January 01, 1988

Authors

M E Bentley1, G H Pelto, W L Straus, D A Schumann, C Adegbola, E de la Pena, G A Oni, K H Brown, S L Huffman

Author Affiliations

1: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health and Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.

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