Traditional medicine in Uganda: historical perspective, challenges and advances (English)

Traditional medicine refers to the ways that existed of protecting and restoring health before the arrival of modern medicine (World Health Organization - WHO 1996). It has also been defined as the sum total of all knowledge and practices used in the prevention, diagnosis, and elimination of physical, mental or social imbalances and which relies exclusively on practical experience and observation handed down from generation to generation, whether...

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Document Date
2004/04/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
31257
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Uganda,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2005/01/13
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Traditional medicine in Uganda: historical perspective, challenges and advances
Keywords
traditional medicine

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Traditional medicine in Uganda: historical perspective, challenges and advances (English). Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes ; no 67 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/208041468121755812

Traditional medicine in Uganda: historical perspective, challenges and advances (English)

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