Traditional Medicine in Uganda : Historical Perspective, Challenges and Advances
Traditional medicine refers to the ways that existed of protecting and restoring health before the arrival of modern medicine (World Health Organization - WHO 1996). It has also been defined as the sum total of all knowledge and practices used in t...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/5545682/traditional-medicine-uganda-historical-perspective-challenges-advances http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10770 |
| Summary: | Traditional medicine refers to the ways
that existed of protecting and restoring health before the
arrival of modern medicine (World Health Organization - WHO
1996). It has also been defined as the sum total of all
knowledge and practices used in the prevention, diagnosis,
and elimination of physical, mental or social imbalances and
which relies exclusively on practical experience and
observation handed down from generation to generation,
whether orally or in writing. It has bee debated whether the
word traditional should be used at all, as it implies some
degree of stagnancy or backwardness. |
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