 Health, disease and health-care in rural BangladeshAli Ashraf, Shafiq Chowdhury and Pieter Streefland Social Science & Medicine, 1982, vol. 16, issue 23, 2041-2054 Abstract: 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. Date: 1982 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:16:y:1982:i:23:p:2041-2054 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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