Why snakebite patients in Myanmar seek traditional healers despite availability of biomedical care at hospitals? Community perspectives on reasons

• Eliza Schioldann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2324-035X

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• Mohammad Afzal Mahmood ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: afzal.mahmood@adelaide.edu.au

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9395-8693

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• Mya Myitzu Kyaw,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Project Field Team, Myanmar Snakebite Project, Mandalay, Myanmar

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• Dale Halliday,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Khin Thida Thwin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health and Sport, University of Medicine 1 & Yangon Specialist Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar

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• Nyein Nyein Chit,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Regional Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Mandalay, Myanmar

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• Robert Cumming,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• David Bacon,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Sam Alfred,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia

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• Julian White,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Toxinology Department, Women’s & Children Hospital, Adelaide, Australia

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• David Warrell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Chen Au Peh

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia

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