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Health, disease and health-care in rural Bangladesh

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  • Ashraf, Ali
  • Chowdhury, Shafiq
  • Streefland, Pieter

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During two periods of almost 3 months each, a study was done in three villages of Tangail District in Bangladesh. One of the objectives was to find out how the fields of traditional medicine (Ayurveda and Unani), folk medicine and allopathic medicine were related to each other, and which processes could be discerned in these interrelationships. In this respect an important outcome was that traditional medicine had almost disappeared in this area and that Western medicine holds a very strong position. Another objective was to study the illness-behaviour of various economic categories of villagers. Here we found that the poor made much more use of the government facilities than the rich. In fact, these facilities have a large potential, but there are many defects in the way they are operating, so that the potential is not realized at all. We also studied the cures which the practitioners of folk medicine and those of Western medicine are offering to their clients. One of the conclusions was that the practices of the unqualified allopathic practitioners, who hold a strong position in the countryside, are often a hazard to health.

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  • Ashraf, Ali & Chowdhury, Shafiq & Streefland, Pieter, 1982. "Health, disease and health-care in rural Bangladesh," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 16(23), pages 2041-2054, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:16:y:1982:i:23:p:2041-2054
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    1. M Trent Herdman & Richard James Maude & Md Safiqul Chowdhury & Hugh W F Kingston & Atthanee Jeeyapant & Rasheda Samad & Rezaul Karim & Arjen M Dondorp & Md Amir Hossain, 2016. "The Relationship between Poverty and Healthcare Seeking among Patients Hospitalized with Acute Febrile Illnesses in Chittagong, Bangladesh," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(4), pages 1-21, April.
    2. Helen E. Sheehan & S.J. Hussain, 2002. "Unani Tibb: History, Theory, and Contemporary Practice in South Asia," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 583(1), pages 122-135, September.
    3. Ahmed, Syed Masud & Hossain, Md. Awlad, 2007. "Knowledge and practice of unqualified and semi-qualified allopathic providers in rural Bangladesh: Implications for the HRH problem," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(2-3), pages 332-343, December.
    4. Sayem Ahmed & Abdur Razzaque Sarker & Marufa Sultana & Sanchita Chakrovorty & Mohammad Wahid Ahmed & Farzana Dorin & Andrew J Mirelman & Ziaul Islam & Mohammad Hafizur Rahman & Louis W Niessen & Clas , 2018. "The impact of community-based health insurance on the utilization of medically trained healthcare providers among informal workers in Bangladesh," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(7), pages 1-16, July.

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