This project analyzes cross cultural factors in a public health program that was implemented to control for schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease in Adasawase, a rural village located in eastern Ghana. This report is a narrative of my own experiences there as I worked in this program and it is an analysis of the ideological, sociopolitical, institutional/professional, ethnocultural, and material factors that might have account for the success and failure of the initiative. I use this study to propose a culturally sensitive model for communicating health in communities.
BT - Worcester Polytechnic Institute LA - eng M3 - Bachelors science N1 -
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This project analyzes cross cultural factors in a public health program that was implemented to control for schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease in Adasawase, a rural village located in eastern Ghana. This report is a narrative of my own experiences there as I worked in this program and it is an analysis of the ideological, sociopolitical, institutional/professional, ethnocultural, and material factors that might have account for the success and failure of the initiative. I use this study to propose a culturally sensitive model for communicating health in communities.
PB - Worcester Polytechnic Institute PY - 2011 SP - 1 EP - 114 T2 - Worcester Polytechnic Institute TI - Methods of schistosomiasis haematobium control in Adasawase, Ghana: A case study of cultural awareness in public health campaigns. ER -