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dc.contributor.advisorDjesa, Rachel Issa
dc.contributor.authorNavile, Tahura Enam
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-19T08:52:31Z
dc.date.available2017-01-19T08:52:31Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-01
dc.description.abstractThis master’s thesis explores the health seeking behaviors for children in the Garo indigenous community of Bangladesh drawing on medical pluralism theoretical framework. The thesis is based on one month-long fieldwork in a northern village of the country, Sainamari. In this village, different health care systems co-exist: the scientific medical system (missionary clinics, pharmacist, hospitals, village doctors, clinics), the traditional herbalists (Kabiraj), the spiritual healer (Khamal), and the use of household treatment system like home-remedies. This study analyzes how the parents define illnesses and seek therapies for their children’s health and use their indigenous cultural practices to health maintenance for their future generation. Although bio-medicine became the dominant model in terms of health care practices around the world, the Garo indigenous community still highly depends on self-treatments, like home-remedies and folk healers like the Kabiraj and the Khamal. The findings of this thesis contributes to the understanding of how the Garo people’s child healthcare in Bangladesh works.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/10173
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2016 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDSVF-3904
dc.subjectSocial Scienceen_US
dc.subjectKeywords:health seeking behavior, Garo, childrenen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosialt arbeid: 360en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Social work: 360en_US
dc.titleHealth Seeking Behavior for Garo Children of Madhupur, Bangladeshen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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