The commercialization of traditional medicine in modern Cambodia
Autor: | Barbara McPake, Suzanne Fustukian, Bandeth Ros, Gillian Lê |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male UHC media_common.quotation_subject History 21st Century Commercialization 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Debt Health care Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Asset (economics) Poverty commercialization health care economics and organizations Aged media_common Family Characteristics affordability 030505 public health Traditional medicine business.industry Health Policy Commerce Original Articles History 20th Century Middle Aged Private sector Payment Mental health Editor's Choice Female Private Sector Medicine Traditional Health Expenditures Cambodia 0305 other medical science business |
Zdroj: | Health Policy and Planning |
ISSN: | 1460-2237 0268-1080 |
Popis: | Globally, traditional medicine has long been used to address relatively common illness, mental ill health and during childbirth and post-natal care. However, traditional medicine is primarily provided by the private sector and it is unclear how far expenditures on traditional medicine contribute to household impoverishment. A life history method was used to understand the health seeking experience of 24 households over the last 60 years in Cambodia, a country with high out-of-pocket expenditures for health. The life histories suggest that traditional medicine in Cambodia has been undergoing a process of commercialization, with significant impacts on poor households. In the earlier lives of respondents, payments for traditional medicine were reported to have been flexible, voluntary or appropriate to patients’ financial means. In contrast, contemporary practitioners appear to seek immediate cash payments that have frequently led to considerable debt and asset sales by traditional medicine users. Given traditional medicine‘s popularity as a source of treatment in Cambodia and its potential to contribute to household impoverishment, we suggest that it needs to be included in a national conversation about achieving Universal Health Coverage in the country. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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