Religion and health: exploration of attitudes and health perceptions of faith healing users in urban Ghana (vol 18, 1358, 2018)

Prince Peprah; Razak M. Gyasi; Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei; Williams Agyemang-Duah; Emmanuel Mawuli Abalo; Josephine Nii Amon Kotei

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Religion and health: exploration of attitudes and health perceptions of faith healing users in urban Ghana (vol 18, 1358, 2018)

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Religion and health: exploration of attitudes and health perceptions of faith healing users in urban Ghana (vol 18, 1358, 2018)

Prince Peprah, Razak M. Gyasi, Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei, Williams Agyemang-Duah, Emmanuel Mawuli Abalo and Josephine Nii Amon Kotei

BMC public health, Vol.18, pp.1-12

20/12/2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6277-9

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The main aim of the study was to explore the attitudes and health perceptions of faith healing users in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana. This has become necessary because faith healing practice is an important area but remains neglected in the health care literature. In an age when biowestern medicine is touted as the cure for most diseases, understanding how and why individuals seek alternative treatment, specifically faith healing modalities may help to develop more effective health care interventions.

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Title: Religion and health: exploration of attitudes and health perceptions of faith healing users in urban Ghana (vol 18, 1358, 2018)
Creators: Prince Peprah - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Razak M. Gyasi - African Population and Health Research Center
Prince Osei-Wusu Adjei - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Williams Agyemang-Duah - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Emmanuel Mawuli Abalo - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Josephine Nii Amon Kotei - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Publication Details: BMC public health, Vol.18, pp.1-12
Publisher: Springer Nature
Number of pages: 1
Identifiers: 991013036340502368
Copyright: © The Author(s). 2018, corrected publication 2018. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Academic Unit: National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine
Language: English
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Religion and health: exploration of attitudes and health perceptions of faith healing users in urban Ghana (vol 18, 1358, 2018)

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