Prevention and therapy: A contextual study of gastro‐intestinal disease in Maputaland, KwaZulu∗

This is a revised version of a paper read at the Annual Conference for the Association for Sociology in Southern Africa (ASSA) in July 1987.

This article gives a summary of a study of gastro‐intestinal diseases carried out in three areas of Maputaland within the context of a range of other types of illness episodes suffered by household members. As such it is a descriptive study which shows that gastro‐intestinal diseases make up 49 per cent of all the reported illnesses suffered by members of sampled households.

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Lecturer. Department of Sociology, Unisa.

This is a revised version of a paper read at the Annual Conference for the Association for Sociology in Southern Africa (ASSA) in July 1987.