Beliefs and perception of ill-health causation: a socio-cultural qualitative study in rural North-Eastern Ethiopia

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• 作者：Mesfin H. Kahissay ; Teferi G. Fenta ; Heather Boon
• 关键词：Health ; Illness ; Beliefs ; Indigenous ; Spirit ; Ethiopia ; Qualitative
• 刊名：BMC Public Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1985KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2458
• 卷排序：17

文摘

BackgroundUnderstanding perceptions of the causes of ill-health common in indigenous communities may help policy makers to design effective integrated primary health care strategies to serve these communities. This study explored the indigenous beliefs of ill-health causation among those living in the Tehuledere Woreda /district/ in North East Ethiopia from a socio-cultural perspective.