THE ROLES OF WESTERN BIOMEDICINE AND FOLK MEDICINE IN RURAL SOLOMON ISLANDS: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF VILLAGERS' RESPONSE TO ILLNESS

• Furusawa Takuro

  Division for International Relations, University of Tokyo

抄録

This study aimed to explore factors determining treatment-seeking behaviors of villagers in a rural Roviana society of the Solomon Islands. Participants (n ≈ 116) were interviewed every evening for 42 days about the occurrence of illnesses and how they had been treated. The study period was divided into two: 22 days during which a nurse was stationed in the village and 20 days when the nurse was absent. As the results show, nurse‘s presence had a negative effect on traditional folk medicine use (OR ≈ 0.39, [95% CI: 0.21-0.72]). Fever or headache was treated more preferably with biomedicine (3.82 [1.81-8.07] or 6.75 [2.75-16.55], respectively), whereas putuputu, an illness with an indigenous etiology, was treated with the latter (34.7 [3.13-384.41]). In addition, biomedicine was preferably used (7.72 [2.65-22.44]) for the treatment of severe illnesses. While folk medicine was used in 40% of all ill person-days, it has likely been partly displaced by effective Western biomedicine. Still, some folk medicine functioned as a culturally indispensable element in treating indigenous illnesses.

収録刊行物

• Tropical Medicine and Health

  Tropical Medicine and Health 34 (2), 83-91, 2006

  日本熱帯医学会

キーワード

• Folk medicine
• Biomedicine
• Medical pluralism
• International Health
• Roviana
• Solomon Islands

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205218651648
• NII論文ID: 10017988277
• NII書誌ID: AA11912846
• DOI: 10.2149/tmh.34.83
• ISSN: 13494147
• ISSN: 13488945
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tmh/34/2/34_2_83/_pdf
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2007143058
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