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T1  - Informal Communication and Health-seeking Behaviours in Ghana 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/12815 
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A1  - Crentsil, Perpetual 
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Y1  - 2001 
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AB  - This thesis studies medical beliefs and practices in Ghana. Its aim is to analyse the kind of social interaction/social relations inherent in informal communication in health-seeking behaviours. The primary aim, however, is to look for people's social meaning of illness-- what sense they make of illness-- in the interplay between informal communication and health-seeking activities.       The study is based in Twuim, a rural fishing village in Ghana. It is descriptive, exploratory, and largely e... 
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KW  - medical anthropology; informal communication; Ghana; family; social relations; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Sosiaali- ja kulttuuriantropologia; Social- och kulturantropologi 
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