Health-Seeking Behaviors in Mozambique: A Mini-Study of Ethnonursing
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Overview of Mozambique
1.1.1. Brief Ethnohistory
1.1.2. Theoretical Guide and Conceptual Framework
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design
2.2. Study Area
2.3. Participants and Data Collection
2.4. Participant Observation
2.5. Recruitment and In-Depth Interviews
2.6. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Informants
3.2. Themes Discerned from Patterns
4. Discussion
Limitations of This Study
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables |
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Number | Number |
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Age by Decade | |
20 s | 2 |
30 s | 4 |
40 s | 2 |
50 s | 4 |
Gender | |
Male | 8 |
Female | 4 |
Tribe | |
Makonde | 6 |
Makuwa | 5 |
Shona | 1 |
Education | |
No education | 1 |
Under 8th grade | 3 |
Under 12th grade | 6 |
Associate degree | 1 |
Bachelor’s degree | 1 |
Occupation | |
Teacher | 3 |
Public officer | 1 |
Office worker | 2 |
Health worker | 1 |
Pension recipient | 2 |
Plasterer | 1 |
Guard man | 1 |
No occupation | 1 |
Themes | Categories | Codes |
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Perceptions of health and illness |
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Local perception of causes of diseases |
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Category | Public Medical Health System | Traditional Medical Health System |
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Theory | European Medicine | Curandeirismo |
Who provides treatment | Physician and medical technician | Traditional healer (curandeiro) |
Medicine | Chemical agents | Medicinal herbs and natural agents (including minerals) Magic |
Treatment site | Medical facilities One provincial hospital and nine health centers in each ward | Traditional healer’s house or another site |
Access | One provincial hospital and nine health centers, and all facilities are open to anybody who visits | Open access, but the patients need to search by themselves based on personal information |
Consultant fee | 1 mt (1 United States Dollar = 75 Metical) | Expensive consultant fee (More than 10,000 mt) |
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Takeyama, N.; Muzembo, B.A.; Jahan, Y.; Moriyama, M. Health-Seeking Behaviors in Mozambique: A Mini-Study of Ethnonursing. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 2462. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042462
Takeyama N, Muzembo BA, Jahan Y, Moriyama M. Health-Seeking Behaviors in Mozambique: A Mini-Study of Ethnonursing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(4):2462. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042462
Chicago/Turabian StyleTakeyama, Naoko, Basilua Andre Muzembo, Yasmin Jahan, and Michiko Moriyama. 2022. "Health-Seeking Behaviors in Mozambique: A Mini-Study of Ethnonursing" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 4: 2462. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042462