@article{458d29f32a684631910c4fc3148ddd93,
title = "Controlling blinding trachoma in the Egyptian Delta: Integrating clinical, epidemiological and anthropological understandings",
abstract = "Trachoma is a leading cause of preventable blindness in the world. The disease is hyperendemic in rural Egypt, where more than 75% of children show signs of having had at least one episode of infectious trachoma during the first year of life. Earlier anthropological and epidemiological observations suggested that trachoma prevalence would decrease if children had their faces washed with soap and water at least once each day. We conducted a community-based intervention to increase face washing in order to control trachoma. In this paper we describe the overall design of this intervention trial and discuss how we integrated anthropological methods and ethnographic data into the design of this successful multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural project to prevent trachoma.",
author = "Rubinstein, {Robert A.} and {D. Lane}, Sandra and Sallam, {Sunny A.} and Sheta, {Ahmed S.} and Gad, {Zahira M.} and Sherif, {Aida R.} and Mohammed Selim and Ashry Gad and Ahmed Shama and Julius Schachter and Dawson, {Chandler R.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by grants from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and by NIH grant EY.00427. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors. We thank our fellow team members who participated in the fieldwork for this project, Dr Ahmed Osman, Dr Anita F{\'a}bos and Ms Martha Diase. Mr Nasr Elmanadilli coordinated the logistics for this study. We are grateful to Dr Moyhi El-din Said for his advice and guidance and to Dr Fred Dunn for his general consultation on this project and his comments during the development of the KAP instrument. Dr Walter Hauck provided statistical consultation and Ms Lauren Gee managed the study databases. Earlier versions of some of this material were presented at the 1991 meeting of the American Public Health Association and at the 1991 and 1992 meetings of the American Anthropological Association.",
year = "2006",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1080/13648470600738674",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
pages = "99--118",
journal = "Anthropology and Medicine",
issn = "1364-8470",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "2",
}