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Ticket to Heaven. Psychiatric illness in a religious community in Ethiopia.
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It is suggested that life in the community to some extent prevents the development of the secondary handicap of a chronic psychotic which is generally termed institutionalism.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1974-12-01. It has received 16 citations till now.read more
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Ethiopian society and history: a bibliography of Ethiopian studies 1957-1990
TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of publications on Ethiopia published between c. 1957 up to 1990 can be found in this article, where 5433 entries are arranged according to the following broad subject areas: Bibliographies - History of Ethiopianist studies - Studies on manuscripts, documents, archives and library resources.
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Psychiatric priorities in developing countries.
R Giel,T W Harding +1 more
TL;DR: The method of priority selection is discussed, and the process required for translation of priority decisions into health action is exemplified by two illustrations.
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Exploring Children′s Literature
Nikki Gamble,Sally Yates +1 more
TL;DR: The authors Developing Personal Knowledge about Books Narrative Narration and Point of View Narrative Structure, Time and Cohesion Character, Setting and Themes Language and Style Genres and Traditional Stories Fantasy, Realism and Writing about the Past Reading and Responding to Fiction Fiction for the Classroom Keeping in Touch with Children's Books Select Bibliography children's books
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Rural health development in Ethiopia. Problems of utilization of traditional healers.
TL;DR: The positive contribution which the concept of medical pluralism could provide to rural health planning and the problems encountered in connection with the utilization of traditional healers and the possibilities for their incorporation into a future syncretic type of national health care delivery system are examined.
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Psychiatric morbidity and psychosocial background in an outpatient population of a general hospital in western Ethiopia.
TL;DR: The psychiatric morbidity rate seemed increased in women, in younger patients and in patients with higher educational level and income, and there was no tendency for the mental disorders to be correlated to somatic disorders.
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Psychiatric disorder among the yoruba
TL;DR: Not only is sociocultural disintegration shown to have a similar relationship to psychiatric disorder in two widely differing settings (Stirling County and western Nigeria), but there are indications that these social factors may be related to a wide spectrum of disorders including many that are not traditionally regarded as psychiatric.
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Psychiatric Morbidity in a Small Ethiopian Town
R. Giel,J. N. Van Luijk +1 more
TL;DR: Hospital statistics regarding admission rates are influenced most of all by economic factors and by distance from hospital, especially during the rainy season when travelling is at times almost impossible.