Sökning: "traditional healer"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden traditional healer.

1. 1. Zvinorwadza : Being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe

   Författare :Olov Dahlin; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Patient; life-worlds; Mberengwa; Karanga; Zimbabwe; religious plurality; traditional religion; Christianity; African-initiated churches; medical plurality; traditional medicine; faith healing; modern health care; biomedicine; sickness; healing; placebo; nocebo; cooperation; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; religionssociologi; religionssociologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses these basic questions: What does it mean to be ill in this part of the world and what do patients' life-worlds look like? In order to find answers to these questions, an in-depth fieldwork was carried out through which I was able to study how patients reacted to illness. I followed twenty patients in their search of ease, of which ten were members of Chief Mataga's family, with whom I was staying. LÄS MER

3. 2. Profiles and outcome of traditional healing practices for severe mental illnesses in two districts of Eastern Uganda

   Författare :Catherine Abbo; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Mental illness; traditional healers; outcome; Western Medicine;

   Sammanfattning : Background: The WHO estimates that more than 80% of African populations attend traditional healers for health reasons. However, little is known about the profiles and outcome of this traditional approach to treatment of mental illnesses. LÄS MER

4. 3. Cultural explanatory models of depression i Uganda

   Författare :Elialilia Sarikiaeli Okello; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Depression; depression subtype; psychotic depression; culture; cultural competence; emic; etic; explanatory models; case vignette; qualitative research; help seeking; pathway to care; indigenous model; traditional healer; health policy.;

   Sammanfattning : Background: Depressive disorders are among the most frequent psychiatric disorders, accounting for up to 30% of primary care service utilisation in developing countries in general, and Uganda in particular. However, delays in seeking treatment, misdiagnosis and non-specific treatments have compromised appropriate care for people with depression. LÄS MER

5. 4. Zvinorwadza : being a patient in the religious and medical plurality of the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe

   Författare :Olov Dahlin; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Patients - Zimbabwe; Medical plurality - Zimbabwe; Religious plurality - Zimbabwe; Patienter – Zimbabwe; Sjukdomsbegreppet – Zimbabwe; Mångkulturella samhällen – Zimbabwe; Mångreligiösa samhällen - Zimbabwe; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses these basic questions: What does it mean to be ill in this part of the world and what do patients' life-worlds look like? In order to find answers to these questions, an in-depth fieldwork was carried out through which I was able to study how patients reacted to illness. I followed twenty patients in their search of ease, of which ten were members of Chief Mataga's family, with whom I was staying. LÄS MER

7. 5. Daniel Ndoundou : Väckelseledare i den Evangeliska Kyrkan i Kongo

   Författare :Bertil Åhman; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Mika Vähäkangas; Hans Austnaberg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; revival; Daniel Ndoundou; Buana Kibongi; Congo; Evangelical Church; prophet; nganga; charismatic; kindoki; Swedish Mission; spiritual gifts; ngunza; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

   Sammanfattning : Daniel Ndoundou (1911 – 1986) was born in the southern part of French Equatorial Africa, close to the border of the Belgian Congo. At an early age he joined the Swe-dish protestant mission. As a young man he began to work as an evangelist and in 1946 he was ordained pastor. LÄS MER