The role of traditional medicine practice in primary health care within Aboriginal Australia: a review of the literature [PDF]
This literature review attempts to identify and examine, both qualitatively and quantitatively, traditional medicine practices within Aboriginal Australia today.AbstractThe practice of traditional Aboriginal medicine within Australia is at risk of being ...
Stefanie J Oliver
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Biopiracy versus one-world medicine – from colonial relicts to global collaborative concepts [PDF]
Background: Practices of biopiracy to use genetic resources and indigenous knowledge by Western companies without benefit-sharing of those, who generated the traditional knowledge, can be understood as form of neocolonialism.Hypothesis: : The One-World ...
Abdelfatah, Sara +40 more
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Examining the Association Between Traditional and Mainstream Medicine and the Prevalence of Arthritis in the Urban Indigenous Population Living in Toronto [PDF]
Background: In the Indigenous community, the prevalence of arthritis is 1.3 to 1.6 times higher than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Moreover, minimal population health information on urban Indigenous peoples is available.
Chen, Julio Cristian
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Traditional Methods of Protecting the Infant and Child Illness/Disease Among the Wazigua at Mvomero Ward, Morogoro, Region, Tanzania [PDF]
Even though child and infant protection against health problems using various methods is as old as mankind, there is limited literature on traditional methods used to protect infant and child in Tanzania.
Kayombo , E.J.
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Traditional Family History & Training - Part 1 [PDF]
While Ayurveda is an ancient system of medicine, training for it involves many years of study as well as apprenticeship. The apprenticeship could run in the family, as from father to son, or in a more formal setting, as with an acclaimed teacher.
Joshi, Himanshu +3 more
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Radical liberal values-based practice. [PDF]
Values based practice is a radical view of the place of values in medicine which develops from a philosophical analysis of values, illness and the role of ethical principles. It denies two attractive and traditional views of medicine: that diagnosis is a
Beauchamp +15 more
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African traditional medicine and western medicine and infant health in Ghana [PDF]
Only abstract. Paper copies of master’s theses are listed in the Helka database (http://www.helsinki.fi/helka). Electronic copies of master’s theses are either available as open access or only on thesis terminals in the Helsinki University Library.Vain ...
Mensah-Abrambah, Emmanuel
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Traditional Chinese Medicine and Its Role in Women’s Health [PDF]
This paper is a literature review of traditional Chinese medicine and its role in women’s health. A search was performed and a group of 208 articles were initially found using the Liberty Summons search engine.
Smith, Ezekiel
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Experience of Initiating Collaboration of Traditional Healers in Managing HIV and AIDS in Tanzania. [PDF]
Collaboration between traditional healers and biomedical practitioners is now being accepted by many African countries south of the Sahara because of the increasing problem of HIV/AIDS.
Edmund J Kayombo +29 more
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Current status of herbal and their future perspectives [PDF]
Traditional medicine is the synthesis of therapeutic experience of generations of practicing physicians of indigenous systems of medicine. Throughout the history of mankind, many infectious diseases have been treated with herbals.
Ponnampalam Gopalakrishnakone +1 more
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