Holy water and biomedicine: a descriptive study of active collaboration between religious traditional healers and biomedical psychiatry in Ethiopia
Background Religious and traditional healers remain the main providers of mental healthcare in much of Africa. Collaboration between biomedical and traditional treatment modalities is an underutilised approach, with potential to scale up mental healthcare. Aims To report the process and feasibility...
Main Authors: | Yonas Baheretibeb, Dawit Wondimagegn, Samuel Law |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021-05-01
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Series: | BJPsych Open |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472421000569/type/journal_article |
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