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Diabetes Mellitus: Indigenous naming, indigenous diagnosis and self-management in an African setting: the example from Cameroon

The objective was to examine how the indigenous naming, indigenous self-diagnosis and management of diabetes evolved with awareness in order to develop a socially oriented theoretical model for its care. The data was collected through a one-year extended participant observation in Bafut, a rural hea...

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Published in:BMC endocrine disorders 2009-02, Vol.9 (1), p.5-5, Article 5
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