This essay discusses the way in which a quest for health was expressed by resorting to primary health care services set up in the Middle Juba region of Somalia before the civil war started in 1990. The hypothesis concerning this study are grounded in direct and participant observation of the operations of the health service facilities as well as the social dynamics surrounding such operations carried out during one year of project and on interviews with traditional healers as well as observation of traditional healing treatments. The call for care and attention expressed in the services represented a wide concept of well-being but the expectations conveyed by resorting to the health facilities sometimes did not coincide with the services offered. Those specific needs and expectations which were not met by the existing health services have been the main inspiration and focus of this entire survey.

In quest of health: responding with basic modern medicine facilities to heterogeneous needs. A quantitative survey based on anthropological perspectives

DECLICH
2020

Abstract

This essay discusses the way in which a quest for health was expressed by resorting to primary health care services set up in the Middle Juba region of Somalia before the civil war started in 1990. The hypothesis concerning this study are grounded in direct and participant observation of the operations of the health service facilities as well as the social dynamics surrounding such operations carried out during one year of project and on interviews with traditional healers as well as observation of traditional healing treatments. The call for care and attention expressed in the services represented a wide concept of well-being but the expectations conveyed by resorting to the health facilities sometimes did not coincide with the services offered. Those specific needs and expectations which were not met by the existing health services have been the main inspiration and focus of this entire survey.
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