In 1957, Ghana became the first African nation to achieve independence from its colonial ruler. But since then Ghana has suffered mixed political and econo... R Horton - 《Lancet》 被引量: 103发表: 2001年 Use of traditional healers and modern medicine in Ghana Purpose: To gain understanding...
Traditional medicine and medical practitioners remain important because of the dearth of public facilities and the tendency for Ghanaians to patronize indigenous and modern systems simultaneously. Customary treatments for disease focus equally on supernatural causes, the psychosociological environment, and medi...
Medicine, Faith and Politics in Agogo: A History of Health Care Delivery in Rural Ghana, ca. 1925 to 1980doi:10.1080/00083968.2019.1627039Eric KesseCanadian Journal of African Studies
This article offers a cultural ("indigenous") explanation of why people in their quest for therapy sometimes reject biomedicine. The argument is that in th... B Bierlich - 《Social Science & Medicine》 被引量: 65发表: 2000年 Traditional kinship foster care in northern Ghana: the experiences...
3. Traditional medicinal uses A number of medicinal uses have been reported across the globe ranging from the use of leaves, bark, roots, fruits to seeds of A. muricata [7]. The most widely used preparation in traditional medicine is the decoction of bark, root, seed or leaf but applicati...
For a long time, the MPLA government regarded the continuing importance of traditional leaders in local political life with suspicion, while in UNITA the role of chiefs in political life was more widely accepted. Street vendors at a market area in Luanda. Small market trade is very important ...
We have highlighted the economic history of earlier pandemics and related same to the current burden. We discuss how resources have been distributed to address health systems of Africa and Ghana in particular. Also, the current contribution pays attention to critical questions on COVID-19 in ...
- 《Journal of Traditional & Complementary Medicine》 被引量: 10发表: 2017年 Sex differences in the forms of aggression among adolescent students in Ghana A number of studies have investigated sex differences in the forms of aggression exhibited by adolescent students, particularly in the Western ...
Along the same lines, local people have renegotiated the boundaries of traditional professions. In fact, especially in the cities, the exercise of a given profession is no longer limited to people with the appropriate family background. The Institut national des arts in Bamako has played a ...
In order to assure a supply of labor to the French coastal colonies, Upper Volta was dissolved in 1932 and its territory divided among the Ivory Coast, French Sudan (now Mali), and Niger. The traditional Mossi aristocracy and the emerging intellectual elite protested against the dissolution of...