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Health, Risk & Society Volume 14, 2012 - Issue 2: Special Issue Series – Health Care Through the ‘Lens of Risk’: Special Issue One (of Four): The categorisation of health risks
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Managing risk through treatment-seeking in rural north-western Tanzania: Categorising health problems as malaria and nzoka

Nicola Desmond International Health Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi; Medical Research Council, Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Audrey Prost Medical Research Council, Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK; Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
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Daniel Wight Medical Research Council, Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK
Pages 149-170 | Received 11 Jan 2012, Accepted 20 Jan 2012, Published online: 16 Mar 2012

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