A sociological analysis of the Rhodes University Students and staff members’ perceptions on the use of traditional medicine and biomedicine

Mankantshu, Buncwanekazi

Title: A sociological analysis of the Rhodes University Students and staff members’ perceptions on the use of traditional medicine and biomedicine
Creator: Mankantshu, Buncwanekazi
Subject: Traditional medicine -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Ethnopharmacology -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: College students -- Attitudes -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: College students -- Medical care -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Social medicine -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Rhodes University -- Students -- Attitudes
Subject: Rhodes University -- Employees -- Medical care
Subject: Rhodes University -- Employees -- Attitudes
Date Issued: 2019
Date: 2019
Type: text
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MSocSc
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/96280
Identifier: vital:31257
Description: The primary objective of this study was to understand to the role that discourse on traditional medicine plays in the choices that Rhodes University students and staff make regarding who they consult when they are sick. A secondary objective was to explore the participants’ views on the Department of Health’s draft policy on the institutionalisation of African traditional medicine and potential collaboration with the biomedical health care system. This was a qualitative study that used in-depth interviews and questionnaires to collect data, which was interpreted using thematic data analysis. A key finding was that participants were mostly influenced by their families with regard to the health care choices – either biomedical or traditional medicine. And that affordability, accessibility and availability are not important factors in health care choices as suggested by literature. Participants also based their decisions on what they believed would help them, either biomedicine or traditional medicine.
Format: 71 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, Sociology
Language: English
Rights: Mankantshu, Buncwanekazi

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