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dc.contributor.authorKwame, Abukari
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-26T13:03:27Z
dc.date.available2022-02-26T13:03:27Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-13
dc.description.abstractIn this study, I employed interpretive ethnographic qualitative design to explore perceptions of and proposals from traditional healers, biomedical practitioners, and health care consumers regarding integrating traditional medicine and healing in Ghana. Data were gathered through focus groups, in-depth individual interviews, and qualitative questionnaires and analyzed thematically. The results revealed positive attitudes toward integrating traditional medicine in Ghana and a discursive discourse of power relations. The power imbalance between biomedical and traditional practitioners regarding what integrative models to adopt is sanctioned by formal education and institutional structure. As a result, multiple approaches for integration were made, including patient co-referrals, collaborations between biomedical and traditional medical practitioners, and creating a unit for traditional medicine and healers at the outpatients’ department for patients to choose either biomedicine or traditional medicine. Incorporating aspects of traditional healing in the training of biomedical practitioners and creating a space for knowledge sharing were also proposed. These integrative models reflected the distinctive interests of healers and biomedical practitioners. Considering these findings, I recommended policy options for consideration toward achieving an integrative health care system in Ghana.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKwame. Integrating Traditional Medicine and Healing into the Ghanaian Mainstream Health System: Voices From Within. Qualitative Health Research. 2021;31(10):1847-1860en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1999222
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/10497323211008849
dc.identifier.issn1049-7323
dc.identifier.issn1552-7557
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/24159
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.relation.journalQualitative Health Research
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleIntegrating Traditional Medicine and Healing into the Ghanaian Mainstream Health System: Voices From Withinen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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