@article{6f9a1ea38277472eaf35eaefa1eb83c0,
title = "Acute Respiratory Illness: Popular Health Culture and Mother's Knowledge in the Philippines",
abstract = "Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is one of the chief causes of morbidity and mortality in the third world. This ethnographic study of ARI in the Philippines draws attention to local knowledge, sign recognition, perceptions of severity, and cultural factors influencing health care seeking. The mix of research methods used to generate data on these issues is discussed.",
keywords = "ARI, Philippines, medical anthropology",
author = "Mark Nichter and Mimi Nichter",
note = "Funding Information: Rockefeller Foundation and sponsored by the University of the Philippines Clinical Epidemiology Unit and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Manila campus. The researchers benefitted from the constructive criticisms of colleagues when presenting sections of this paper at the American Anthropological Association meetings in 1989and the International Network of Clinical Epidemiology meetings in1991.",
year = "1993",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1080/01459740.1994.9966099",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "15",
pages = "353--375",
journal = "Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness",
issn = "0145-9740",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "4",
}