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Table 4 Themes of the Interview guide

From: Participative epidemiology and prevention pathway of health risks associated with artisanal mines in Luhihi area, DR Congo

General themes

Sub-themes

Participatory epidemiology

- Most frequent pathology

- Vernacular names of diseases and their illustration by symptoms

- Importance of diseases according to mortality

- Importance of the disease according to the difficulty of treatment

Availability and access to health care

- Health care structures

- Different health care itineraries

- Different health care options

- Determinants of the choice of health care options

- Sources of income for health care

Initiative of collective actions for care

- Willingness to participate in collective actions like assurances

- Potential actors well placed for initiation

Power dynamics and actors’ interests in mobilizing health care resources

- Actors with interest in action

- Actors with power of action

- Actors needing to be motivated for acting

- Alignment of stakeholders’ interests