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Guidelines for disclosure of traditional medicine use to allopathic medicine practitioners by patients who use both traditional and allopathic medicines at selected hospitals in Gauteng, South Africa
Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in Health Sciences: Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.
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The Backgrounds and Outcomes of Allopathic Medical School Applicants: Exploring Stratification and Inequality
<p>A career in medicine remains one of the most rigorous and arduous journeys in higher education. The time and cost to train coupled with the academic and extracurricular requirements have resulted in challenges in diversifying the profession. This study utilizes an HLM and HGLM to model the …
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Allopathy Goes Native: Models, Motives and Medicine in Iran
Cultural influences on the practice of allopathic medicine in the United States have been vastly documented; at the same time, applied medical anthropologists have been working to help implement measures thought by allopathic medicine to improve morbidity and mortality in non-Western settings. In …
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A model for collaboration between allopathic and traditional health practitioners in the management of HIV/AIDS and TB patients in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
… form part of the communities consulting both allopathic and traditional health practitioners. The study examined existing relationships between traditional and allopathic health practitioners, as they both manage HIV/AIDS and TB patients. The study aim was to develop a model for collaboration …
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Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Osteoarthritis Treatments among the Medicare Population
… levels of treatment attributes (e.g., cost, allopathic treatments, combination therapies, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies) for OA treatments.</p> <p>Overall, for the total sample, prayer/spiritual healing had the highest utility value (.71). Therefore, all groups …
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Urban African traditional healers : their understanding of and beliefs about biomedical diseases
… who interact both with them and the modern allopathic health services. The main objective of this study was to ascertain African traditional healers' understanding of and beliefs about the medical conditions under discussion in the doctor-patient interaction to which they silently listen.
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The relative efficacy of a homoeopathic pain complex (Arnica montana 30CH, Bellis perennis 30CH, Calendula officinalis 30CH, Hypericum perforatum 30CH, Phosphorus 30CH, Stapysagria 30CH) and allopathic analgesic (Stopyane) in the post-operative management of haemorrhoidectomy
Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Homoeopathy, Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2001.
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MEDICAL SCHOOL ADMISSION POLICY ANALYSIS: SUCCESS IN INCREASING AFRICAN AMERICANS IN MATRICULANT CLASSES
… and research of both American and Canadian allopathic medical schools, has introduced Holistic Review as a method for creating a diverse population in a medical school class; this study investigates the way medical schools are incorporating these strategies into their medical school …
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The Supply and Demand of Physician Assistants in the United States: A Trend Analysis
… applicants per seat for PAs is the same as for allopathic medical school applicants) support predicted increases. However, other implications for the PA educational institutions include recruitment and retention of qualified faculty, clinical site maintenance and diversity of matriculates. …
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Three Papers on Patient Experiences with Symptom Persistent Lyme Disease in Canada
… healthcare (between alternative and Allopathic medicine) and may inform policy and decision-making focused on the prevention and treatment of Lyme disease in Canada.
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Medical Students' Motivation-Related Perceptions in an Anatomy Course: A Mixed Methods Study to Inform Course Design and Instruction
… medical students enrolled at a small, public allopathic medical school in the southeastern United States were surveyed and interviewed regarding their course perceptions. Quantitative data from 18 students and qualitative data from 14 students indicated that students' motivation-related …
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Enablers and barriers to the effective use of public-private mix in tuberculosis control within Cape Town: the private sector perspective
… trained doctors in private practices, non allopathic medical practitioners, private pharmacists, laboratory technicians and microbiologists. The study employed the convenience sampling method. A total of 50 interviews were conducted with the use of self-administered semi-structured …
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Communication, Disability, and Scientific Interventions in South Asia, c. 1860-1970
… knowledge, it examines how debates in allopathic institutions about ‘cerebral localisation’ raised to prominence the question of whether the speech function could be neuroanatomically mapped. Elucidating how Bengali ‘deaf educators’ politicised speech and hearing, and mounted calls for …
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The health of young children and the foundation of British children’s hospitals, c.1830 –1860
… extent to which they succeeded in applying the allopathic model of health, with the administration of medicines and surgical procedures at the centre, however ineffectually. What actually distinguished the new institutions was their emphasis on promoting healing not by manipulating children’s …
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Complementary and alternate medicines: a forensic analysis of the potential adulteration of over-the-counter anorectics and "lifestyle" medicines in South Africa
… to the same rigorous testing required for allopathic (prescription) medication, yet they are freely available as over-the-counter medicines. Past research has shown the presence of a banned drug, sibutramine in natural anorectics and a schedule 6 prescription drug, sildenafil, found in …
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Understanding Physicians’ and Non-Physician Practitioners’ Recommending Practices, Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Expectations Regarding Music as a Cost-Effective Complementary and Alternative Medicine Approach
… and non-physician practitioners. Teachings in allopathic approaches may need to include teachings in holistic medicine in order for awareness of CAM such as Music Therapy to be obtained. In addition, further evidence-based research and longitudinal studies are needed for increased acceptance …
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Toxicology and herb-drug interaction of selected anti-hypertension plants used by lay persons in Northern KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
… not to take any herbals concurrently with any allopathic medicine.
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Music and its meaning: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of chronic pain sufferers use of music as a therapeutic intervention
… age groups. The chronic pain sufferer seeks out allopathic pharmaceutical treatments that may offer some temporary pain relief, but at what cost? Both psychologically, and physically, the complexities and side effects of the pain and the treatment plan have their observable effects. Over the past …
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Cognitive dissonance shaping consumer behaviour within Generation Z: a case of the Indian healthcare industry
… their successors-gen Alpha. Third, what should allopathic healthcare providers consider appealing to, and how concerning this cohort; one that is refraining from partaking in their treatments.
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Effects of environmental factors on wood decay micromorphology of Pinus radiata and Fagus sylvatica, and its significance for in-ground wood preservative performance
… in pathological reaction wood that contains allopathic chemicals and physical blockages of wood cell lumenae such as gums and resins. Therefore, latent genes encoding decay capabilities not expressed under laboratory conditions may be highly significant in preservative treated wood in ground …