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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
arts and humanities
Ghanaian national policy toward indigenous healers. The case of the Primary Health Training for Indigenous Healers (PRHETIH) program
Social Science and Medicine, Volume 16, No. 21, Year 1982
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We review the policy of the Ghanaian Ministry of Health towards indigenous healers, and estimate their potential and actual utilization in the national health delivery system. We then describe the program to give primary health training to indigenous healers. The program established relations with the regional offices and central headquarters of the Ministry of Health, The Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, the Ghana Psychic and Traditional Healers Association and various categories of indigenous healers. We describe our strategies to coordinate the program with Ministry of Health Units and different categories of indigenous healers (mainly TBAs, herbalists and priest/priestess healers) in Techiman District. We analyze the socio-cultural, economic and politico-administrative forces impinging on the design and implementation of the program to recommend ways that this kind of program can be developed in other localities within and outside Ghana. © 1982.
Authors & Co-Authors
Warren, Dennis Michael
United States, Ames
Iowa State University
Bova, George Steven
United States, New York
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Tregoning, Mary Ann
Ghana
Prhetih Program
Kliewer, Mark
United States, Durham
Duke University Medical Center
Statistics
Citations: 61
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/0277-9536(82)90448-8
ISSN:
02779536
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Ghana