What drives the use of natural products for medicinal purposes in the context of cultural pluralism?
| Autor: | Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Ana Haydee Ladio, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Taline Cristina da Silva, Diego Batista de Oliveira Abreu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOR media_common.quotation_subject Otras Ciencias Biológicas Alternative medicine Context (language use) TRADITIONAL MEDICAL SYSTEM Ciencias Biológicas 03 medical and health sciences Health services 0302 clinical medicine Cultural diversity Natural (music) Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Marketing media_common 030505 public health Traditional medicine business.industry MULTICULTURALISM COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Complementary and alternative medicine Multiculturalism INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE Integrative medicine 0305 other medical science business Cultural pluralism CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS |
| Popis: | Introduction: What are the drivers of health seeking behaviors in a culturally diverse scenario? A context of medical and cultural pluralism with native and migrant people in NE Brazil was chosen to study the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and official medicine (OM) products and their drivers. Methods: A one-year therapeutic recall was used to obtain information on individual health problems, products to treat their problems and access to health services. A generalized linear model (GLM (binomial errors) was employed to indicate the variables that better explained therapeutic choices. Results: Most people use both CAM and OM products and most illnesses are treated by both systems. The GLM indicated that women, migrants and people that turns to primary health-care services (PHCs) in a lower extent are more likely to exclusively chose CAM products and are also more likely to prioritize them. Frequentation of the local health center also leads to a proportionally higher use of CAM products than the frequentation of other PHCs from the surroundings. Conclusions: Women, migrants and people that do not frequent PHCs are the main supporters of CAM products. In the case of migrant people, their high adhesion to CAM products (especially medicinal plants) can turn them into new depositors of local (traditional) knowledge, although this knowledge will not be dissoluble from other types of medicinal plant knowledge. Fil: Muniz de Medeiros, Patrícia. Universidade Federal de Alagoas; Brasil Fil: Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino. Universidad Federal Rural Pernambuco; Brasil Fil: de Oliveira Abreu, Diego Batista. Universidad Federal Rural Pernambuco; Brasil Fil: da Silva, Taline Cristina. Universidad Federal Rural Pernambuco; Brasil Fil: Soares Ferreria Júnior, Washington. Universidad Federal Rural Pernambuco; Brasil Fil: Ramos, Marcelo Alves. Universidad Federal Rural Pernambuco; Brasil Fil: Ladio, Ana Haydee. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universidad Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina |
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