Chapter-56 Cultural Dimensions of Health-Seeking Behavior for Psychiatric Disorders in North India: An Exploration of Medical Pluralism
BOOK TITLE: Community Mental Health in India
Author
1. Pakaslahti Antti
ISBN
9789350258057
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11688_56
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2012
Pages
13
Author Affiliations
1.
School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
Chapter keywords
Traditional healers,
spirit illness,
amulets,
anthropologist,
non-psychotic disorders,
comorbidity,
psychoses,
somatic diseases,
hyperthyroidism,
hypothyroidism,
benzodiazepines,
sociodemographic data