Abstract
Oncology nursing workforce capacity building in rural Rwanda: Strengthening specialized cancer care through nursing education and skill development
Highlights
We conducted a survey of residents in an unplanned community in Sankar, Dhaka, Bangladesh to determine perceptions of the origin and manifestation of disease with the aim to create improved interventions to increase clinical care utilization
Most respondents were aware of biological pathogens (89.61%) and the dangers of environmental pollution (90.92%), but 71.43% believed that supernatural forces cause illness and 10% made unprompted statements that all illness comes from Allah
Respondents were significantly more likely to report believing that a physician could aid them in the event of an illness if they indicated that they felt they had control over whether they became ill (p 1⁄4 0.0020) or if they felt that they were at risk of becoming ill (p 1⁄4 0.0357)
Summary
Data and disease in Dhaka: Patterns and perceptions of illness in an unplanned community in Sankar. Painter1; 1University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2Spreeha Bangladesh Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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