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.