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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Traditional healing"”.
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Traditional healing at Umlazi Township as part of informal business
The aim of this study was to investigate how traditional healers operate at Umlazi township with special reference to their socio-economic status, systems of working and their problems and future plans. The study showed that there were more male healers than female healers at Umlazi. The ages of …
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The Survival of Traditional Healing in a Contemporary Black Community
… robust incentives to pursue herbal and magical healing and equally compelling disincentives to pursue biomedicine. Ethnomedicine's resonance with a perceived black world view may derive additional elements of its appeal. The logic of the cohort's allegiance to ethnomedicine challenges the …
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Tendency of patients towards medical treatment and traditional healing in Sudan
… this health-care sector and turn to the traditional healing system. This study aims to investigate the patients' treatment dilemma and reasons that lead patients to switching between the two health care systems (medical treatment and traditional healing). Moreover, it aims to highlight …
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Traditional healing modalities in the provision of mental illness in Vhembe, Limpopo Province
The study sought to explore the use of traditional healing modalities in the provision of mental illness in the Vhembe district of Limpopo province. Traditional medicine has been used for thousands of years by indigenous people in South Africa and Africa as a whole, and demonstrated efficacy in …
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Attribution models of helping and coping: A transgenerational theory of African-American traditional healing
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:47:18Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Traditional healing in contemporary South Africa : perspective from traditional health practitioners in Vhembe District (Limpopo).
… to investigate the dynamics that characterise Traditional Health Practitioners and their practices in the modem society of Vhembe District of the Limpopo Province following democratic changes that came with passing of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22 of 2007). The study …
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The influence of traditional healing practices on anti-retroviral treatment adherence in Vhembe District, South Africa
… of the study was to investigate the influence of traditional healing practices on anti-retroviral treatment adherence in Vhembe District. This qualitative study used an explorative design to envisage the aim. A cross-sectional snowball sample was used to draw a sample of 9 participants from the 4 …
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Fragile yet unbreaking : an ethnographic exploration into young people's entangled experiences of traditional healing and HIV
… and illness in relation to both HIV/AIDS and traditional forms of healing. The research employed a creative, didactic methodology based around a series of workshops conducted with two non-governmental organisations based in Grahamstown’s peri-urban townships: The first, Siyapumelela, maintains …
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The Re-Imagining of Rapa Nui Traditional Healing Arts: Explorations of Narrative Identity, Mimesis, and the Public Sphere
… inquiry explores one aspect of their societal healing arts that is in the midst of re-exploration and re-imagination: their traditional medicinal practices or hervias tradicionales and the potential for the findings to help shape the lives of the Rapa Nui in their society.</p> <p>Theory and …
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Traditional healing and medicine in dementia care for Indigenous populations in North America, Australia, and New Zealand: a scoping review
… 2018, the World Health Organization recognized traditional healers as stakeholders in dementia care and prevention. Traditional healers contribute to dementia assessment, diagnosis, and care in unique ways, and play a catalytic role in the process of culturally-safe dementia care planning and …
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Reach out and be healed : constitutional rights to traditional African healing
The introduction of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 22 of 2007 has made lawful the practice of traditional healing. As everyone has the right of access to health care services, the question of whether the state bears a duty to reasonably provide access to traditional healing as an element …
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The impact of African traditional healers on Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in South Africa
There are few studies on the impact of African traditional healing on HIV/AIDS care and treatment in South Africa. There is a need for concrete data on the subject as many people across the African continent are thought to be accessing these kinds of healing services. This study which consists of …
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Integrating Indigenous Cultural Values and Sustainable Architecture for Healing and Empowerment.
… into integrating Indigenous cultural values, traditional healing practices, and sustainable architecture to create a comprehensive framework for fostering healing, reconciliation, and empowerment among homeless and vulnerable Indigenous populations in Calgary, Canada. The study adopts a …
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Zulu traditional healers’ conceptualization and treatment of trauma
There has been advancement of healing where mainstream western medicine is concerned. Significant progress has been made in this regard, concerning integration as well as motivation of integration of indigenous or traditional healing methods to treat psychological illnesses. Literature has advised …
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A study of how a sangoma makes sense of her ‘sangomahood’ through narrative
… medicine and the alternative discourse of traditional healing. In this part of the journey the historical, anthropological and sociological perspectives on medicine are discussed, as well as the different views of Western medicine and traditional healing pertaining to healers, practices, …
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Psychiatric, traditional and other interpretations of Ukuthwetyulwa : a witchcraft phenomenon in the Western Cape
… a phenomenon that has been constructed within a traditional African framework, is confronted by and reinterpreted within a western psychiatric framework. This in turn may shed light on the way in which psychiatric and traditional discourses may be used in the process of the formation of a …
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A public health conflict : traditional medicinal practise and the bio-medical health norms and values at a time of HIV and AIDS in Swaziland
… practices interact? How does the dual systems of healing impact on the HIV and AIDS national mitigation programmes. The study assumes that the existence of different kinds of medical practices in the same community over a long period of time is an indication of the reality of medical pluralism in …
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Jhakris and the urban Nepali conflict : chaos and confusion
… in Western medicine, and the Jhakris, Nepalese traditional healers. Nepalis in Western influenced urban areas made traditional healing practices illegal, resulting in violent arrests and beatings of Jhakris by police and occasional violent retaliation by Jhakris. This research sought to …
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Warriors and Healers of the Eastern Band of Cherokee: Peoplehood, Survivance, and Military Service in World War I (1917-1924)
… of Cherokee communities and supporting the healing of warriors. The women served during the war as nurses, officers and occupied a generally white and male centered environment. After the war, some former warriors and women participated in political actions to improve the lives of indigenous …
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Incorporating traditional healers in the care of mental disorders: The experiences of mental health nurses in Lesotho
… from alternative medicine providers such as traditional healers. Traditional healers form a substantial part of the alternative mental health workforce globally as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Lesotho, the most culturally acceptable form of alternative medicine is traditional healing. …
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