Essays about: "traditional healers and traditional medicine"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words traditional healers and traditional medicine.

1. 1. Moving from Daji towards Noma: Changing the perception of a spiritual towards a treatable disease : A case study of Hilfsaktion Noma e.V. in Niger

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Shauni Denise De Vriese; [2021]
   Keywords : Noma; impediments to healthcare; social cognitive theory; access to healthcare; community-based surveillance system; Hilfsaktion Noma e.V.; Niger;

   Abstract : Noma is a neglected non-contagious disease of the face and mouth affecting children living in extreme poverty. Due to the quick spread of the disease, the mortality rate is estimated at 90% when treatment is not started within two weeks of onset. Even though Hilfsaktion Noma e.V. READ MORE

3. 2. Mothers, Markets and Medicine : The role of traditional herbal medicine in primary women and child health care in the Dar es Salaam region, Tanzania.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Systematisk biologi; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

   Author : Hanna Lindh; [2015]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Traditional medicine is still the most common primary healthcare used in Tanzania, especially among women. The ethnobotanical studies performed in Tanzania have not explored women’s traditional medicine, with the result that we do not know that much about it, including if women’s usage of medicinal plants create a threat against the medicinal flora’s biodiversity or not. READ MORE

4. 3. Women’s Perspectives on Pathway to Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis : Women Voices from Community Level in Uganda

   University essay from Nordiska ministerrådet/Nordic School of Public Health NHV

   Author : Git Wikström; [2011]
   Keywords : Tuberculosis; Women; Health Care Seeking; Barriers; Gender.;

   Abstract : Objectives:  A qualitative study to explore the perceptions and ideas of women at community level in Uganda, about factors influencing their health care-seeking behaviour when symptoms that could indicate pulmonary tuberculosis. To let the women identify barriers to health care-seeking and to let them present ideas how to overcome barriers. READ MORE

5. 4. Local Use of Traditional and Modern Medicine : A case study in Babati District, Tanzania

   University essay from Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

   Author : Magdalena Iancu; [2011]
   Keywords : ethnobotany; midwifery; healers; herbal remedies; indigenous knowledge;

   Abstract : This study aims to identify traditional medicines which people use in Babati District, Tanzania and to find out which direction the local use and knowledge of traditional medicine is taking in comparison with modern medicine (MM). It is a case study based both on primary and secondary sources. READ MORE

6. 5. SUK- A companion to promoting well-being among overweight hypertensive older people : Health seeking behavior among overweight hypertensive older people

   University essay from Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd

   Author : Junjira Seesawang; [2011]
   Keywords : health seeking behavior; older people; overweight hypertensive;

   Abstract : Health seeking behaviour is important in older people with hypertension and overweight, in terms of managing health factors that are related to their health and illness. However, health seeking behaviour of Thai older people is not well documented. READ MORE