HRH Global Resource Center - Traditional Medicine

Indigenous Peoples’ Access to Health Services

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:48:24 +0000

This publication sets out to examine the major challenges for indigenous peoples to obtain adequate access to and utilization of quality health care services. It provides an important background to many of the health issues that indigenous peoples are currently facing. Improving indigenous peoples’ health remains a critical challenge for indigenous peoples, States and the United Nations. [from forward]

Primary Health Care Expectations and Reality in Bangladesh: A Sociological Analysis of the Selected Two Rural Areas

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:33:20 +0000

This research deals with the expectations and reality of primary health care in Bangladesh and focuses on different
Government and NGOs health care situation in rural areas. [from abstract]

Soothsaying as Health Seeking Behaviour: Implications for Medical Treatment of Diseases Perceived to be Supernatural

Tue, 24 Feb 2015 13:55:50 +0000

In spite of the advances in modern medical technologies in dealing with ill-health, a section of society continues to use divination in their search for therapy. Using a qualitative survey, this study sought to gain insight into reasons why this practice is pervasive. [from abstract]

Challenges Faced by Traditional Healers When Treating People Living with HIV and AIDS: The Case of Intsika Municipality, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 15:54:10 +0000

The aim of the present study was to examine the procedures followed by traditional healers treating people living with HIV and AIDS in the Intsika Municipality and the challenges faced by them during this endeavour. [from abstract]

Interest In and Willingness to Use Complementary, Alternative and Traditional Medicine Among Academic and Administrative University Staff in Bloemfontein, South Africa

Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:42:53 +0000

Healthcare systems worldwide are changing and the use of complementary, alternative and traditional medicine (CAM) form part of this transformation. South Africa has a large number of CAM practitioners, but they are not included in the official healthcare system. The aim of this study was to determine the perception and usage of CAM among the academic and administrative staff of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein, South Africa. [from abstract]

Informal Rural Healthcare Providers in North and South India

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:42:34 +0000

Rural households in India rely extensively on informal biomedical providers, who lack valid medical qualifications. Their numbers far exceed those of formal providers. Our study reports on the education, knowledge, practices and relationships of informal providers (IPs) in two very different districts: Tehri Garhwal in Uttarakhand (north) and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh (south). [from abstract]

The Right to Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Health Care

Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:59:54 +0000

This paper contributes to the development of the concept and practice of the right to health in all its forms, exploring the right to traditional, complementary, and alternative health (R2TCAH) across different contexts. [from abstract]

Fracture Treatment by Bonesetters in Central Ghana: Patients Explain Their Choices and Experiences

Fri, 23 May 2014 15:39:35 +0000

To understand factors influencing patients’ decisions to choose either fracture treatment by a bonesetter or in the hospital and to explore patients’ experiences with bonesetter treatment. [from abstract]

Discussing and Testing Efficacy: The Never-Ending Debate About ‘Traditional/Alternative’ and ‘Biomedicines’

Fri, 23 May 2014 15:29:00 +0000

The author tries to break the deadlock in this continuing debate about efficacy testing. He argues that the RCT can be applied to any kind of medical tradition, with the advantages and drawbacks of the tool being in fact similar for biomedicine and traditional/alternative medicine. [from abstract]

Involving Traditional Birth Attendants in Emergency Obstetric Care in Tanzania: Policy Implications of a Study of Their Knowledge and Practices in Kigoma Rural District

Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:45:32 +0000

This paper reports about knowledge and practices of traditional birth attendants on emergency obstetric care in a rural district of Tanzania and discusses policy implications on involving traditional birth attendants in maternal health services. [adapted from abstract]