Traditional healers, mothers and childhood diarrheal disease in Swaziland: the interface of anthropology and health education.

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  1985

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  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

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  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1016/0277-9536(85)90242-4PMID 3975694
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