TY - JOUR AU - Mshana, Gerry AU - Dotchin, Catherine L. AU - Walker, Richard W. PY - 2011 DA - 2011/04/08 TI - 'We call it the shaking illness': perceptions and experiences of Parkinson's disease in rural northern Tanzania JO - BMC Public Health SP - 219 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Parkinson disease (PD) causes physical disability that negatively affects the quality of life of the sufferer's and their families. There are no Parkinson's disease (PD) social science studies published from Africa. This paper presents findings from a qualitative research study on how PD is perceived and treated in a population of approximately 161,000 within a demographic surveillance site in rural Tanzania. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-219 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-11-219 ID - Mshana2011 ER -