The Cultural Implications of Primary Health Care and the Declaration of Alma-Ata: The Health District of Kégdougou, Senegal

Authors

  • Demetri Blanas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v16i1.234

Keywords:

Undergraduate research, Undergraduate research abroad, Education abroad, Study abroad, Senegal, Primary health care

Abstract

This article presents an undergraduate student research project on primary health care conducted in Kedougou and Dakar, Senegal through the School for International Training program. 

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Author Biography

Demetri Blanas

Demetri Blanas graduated from Columbia University in 2006, and he has been working in Southeastern Senegal since September 2007. He started a non-profit organization there together with a Senegalese doctor and recently learned that a number of their projects have received funding from a French NGO.

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Published

2008-12-15

How to Cite

Blanas, D. (2008). The Cultural Implications of Primary Health Care and the Declaration of Alma-Ata: The Health District of Kégdougou, Senegal. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 16(1), 17–59. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v16i1.234