Children's health in a traditional society.

9781606927694

Children's health in a traditional society.

Obeng, Cecilia.

Nova Biomedical Books

2009

144 pages

$79.00

Hardcover

RJ103

Obeng (applied health science, Indiana U.-Bloomington) examines how people in traditional rural Ghana take care of their children's health needs. Reflecting the focus of her primary research, she emphasizes how newborn babies and other children are cared for in general and during times of sickness. She also considers causes of disease in children, and beliefs that influence and/or impact the curing of children afflicted with disease. This treatise is a foundation, she says, for more interdisciplinary research on children's health combining perspectives from anthropology and other social sciences. Among her topics are immunization, spiritual and organic diseases, perspectives of parents on children's dental health, and child custody issues and their impact on children's health.

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