Healthcare-seeking behaviour and management of type 2 diabetes: From Ugandan traditional healersâ€TM perspective
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2016.09.002 2214-1391/ 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Social and Welfare Studies, University of Linkoping, Campus Norrkoping, S-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden. E-mail address: [email protected] (K. Hjelm). Fortunate Atwine , Katarina Hjelm c,⇑
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