This project analyzes cross cultural factors in a public health program that was implemented to control for schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease in Adasawase, a rural village located in eastern Ghana. This report is a narrative of my own experiences there as I worked in this program and it is an analysis of the ideological, sociopolitical, institutional/professional, ethnocultural, and material factors that might have account for the success and failure of the initiative. I use this study to propose a culturally sensitive model for communicating health in communities.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Mason, Victoria Michelle

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042811-153842

Advisor

• Higgins, Lorraine D.

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-04-28

Location

• Adawsoasi

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Professional Writing

Rights statement

• In Copyright