Health for All by the Year 2000: what about the nomads?

Author(s)
Abu Omar, Mayeh
Omar, Muhiadin
Editor(s)
Eade, Deborah
Publication date
1999-05-01
Subject
Approach and methodology
Health
Keywords
Development methods
Migration
Health systems
Development in Practice Journal
DiP

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Routledge
Journal
Development in Practice
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/130355
DOI
10.1080/09614529953043
Document type
Journal article
Language
English
Description
Developing countries with large nomadic populations have found it difficult to cater for itinerant people in their healthcare strategies. Some have tried to settle nomads, others to bring in health workers from outside the nomadic community, both costly and ineffective intervention measures. The author advocates a strategy which seeks to build on the traditional healers' and birth attendants' skills present in nomadic communities, to encourage self-care as far as sensibly possible, and to take account of `community ecology, the definition of an epidemiological profile...and group identity' when planning health services.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>
Pages
6
ISSN
0961-4524
EISSN
1364-9213
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