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Integrating Traditional Healers into the Health Care System: Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Northern Ghana
Traditional medicine is widespread in Ghana, with 80% of Ghanaians relying on its methods for primary health care. This paper argues that integrating traditional and biomedical health systems expands the reach and improves outcomes of community health care. Moving beyond literature, it stresses the...
Autores principales: | Krah, Eva, de Kruijf, Johannes, Ragno, Luigi |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer US
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5767209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28681282 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10900-017-0398-4 |
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