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Cultural barriers to effective communication between Indigenous communities and health care providers in Northern Argentina: an anthropological contribution to Chagas disease prevention and control [PDF]
, 2014 INTRODUCTION: Ninety percent of the aboriginal communities of Argentina are located in areas of endemic vectorial transmission of Chagas disease. Control activities in these communities have not been effective.
Braunstein, Jose Alberto +5 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed +5 more
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Clinical Optometry, 2021 Biruk Lelisa Eticha, Haile Woretaw Alemu, Aragaw Kegne Assaye, Mikias Mered Tilahun Department of Optometry, School of Medicine, University of Gondar, Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Gondar, EthiopiaCorrespondence: Mikias Mered TilahunDepartment of ...
Eticha BL +3 more
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Un rituel de soins au bord de l’eau et les images de l’autorité thérapeutique
Images du Travail, Travail des Images, 2017 Through the images, the article analyses the relationship between healer/patient/ethnographer in a therapeutic context referring to a traditional care system, linked to the cult of the ancestors and the spirits of nature, in the country of Imerina region
Delphine Burguet
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Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2023 Understanding mental healthcare seeking and associated factors is essential for planning mental health services. This study aimed to assess treatment seeking and barriers to care for depressive symptoms and hazardous drinking in a community sample of ...
Tesfa Mekonen Yimer +4 more
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Traditional healers and cancer prevention
Curationis, 2000 The increase in the incidence of cancer in South Africa necessitates the expansion of preventative efforts. This study shows that traditional healers in Atteridgeville are consulted by a range of people in their communities, have a basic knowledge of cancer, provide health education to their patients and are willing to participate in cancer ...
M Steyn, A Muller
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The delipid extracorporeal lipoprotein filter from plasma (DELP) treatment can effectively reduce blood lipid, increase blood flow, and improve neurological deficits in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). However, its effect on vision and retinal microcirculation in stroke patients has never been reported.
Ning Li +9 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Patients with ovarian cancer often present with massive ascites, leading to significant protein loss during surgical procedures. Although cell‐free concentrated ascites reinfusion therapy (CART) is used in palliative settings to mitigate protein loss, its application in intraoperative settings remains unexplored.
Yutaka Yoneoka +7 more
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What about traditional healers? [PDF]
The Psychiatrist, 2010 In studying the relationship between culture and the concept of mental distress, anthropologists have shown how people from different cultures explain mental distress and how these models of distress influence causal attribution and presentation of disorder as well as determining patterns of help-
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The hedonic placebo effect of traditional medicines [PDF]
, 2012 To date, the scientific evidence on traditional medicines is scant and under-developed, yet, paradoxically individuals continue to use it and claim high satisfaction levels. What can explain this effect? Using self-collected data from Ghana we argue that
Costa-i-Font, Joan, Sato, Azusa
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