'The medicine is not for sale': Practices of traditional healers in snakebite envenoming in Ghana.

Jonathan Steinhorst Leslie Mawuli AglanuSofanne J RavensbergenChrisantus Danaah Dari Kabiru Mohammed AbassSamuel Osei MirekuJoseph Ken Adu PokuYeetey A K EnuamehJörg BlessmannRobert A HarrisonJohn H Amuasi Ymkje Stienstra

Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2021)

The fact that traditional healers did sometimes refer victims to hospitals indicates that improvement of antivenom stocks, pain management and wound care can potentially improve health seeking at hospitals. Our results emphasize the need to explore future avenues for communication and collaboration with traditional healers to improve health seeking behaviour and the delivery of much-needed healthcare to snakebite victims.

Keyphrases

healthcare
pain management
mental health
chronic pain
public health
health information
primary care
intimate partner violence
current status
risk assessment
affordable care act
human health