Background: The literature on health care seeking behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa for children suffering from malaria is quite extensive. This literature, however, is predominately quantitative and, inevitably, fails to explore how the local concepts of illness may affect people's choices. Understanding local concepts of illness and their influence on health care-seeking behaviour can complemen...

Tell a smoker to eat a carrot a day and he'll keep the doctor away, but give him regular beta-carotene supplements — the major antioxidant nutrient found in carrots — and you may increase his risk of developing lung cancer. Why? Doctors aren't entirely sure what the difference is between dietary intake and micronutrient supplementa-tion, but they do know that any diet – cancer association is fa...

background: the world health organization estimates that 58% of pregnant women in developing countries are anemic. in spite of the fact that most ministries of health in developing countries have policies to provide pregnant women with iron supplementation, prevalence of maternal anemia has not declined significantly. the aim of this study was to assess adherence to the current recommendation i...