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Manisa İli Karaağaçlı Beldesinde Çocuk Bakımına Yönelik Yöresel Uygulamalar

Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: The sum of methods which are the people whose couldn't provide benefits from the opportunities of modern medicines or prefer to stay away from applications like these, because of many reasons; obtained by experiences of learned from ancestors or their own experiences, on the purpose of diagnosing and treating of the diseases; is known as traditional medicine. Some kind of these applications closely related to the public health are still arguable if they are useful but most of them are harmful is demonstrated by the medicine. In consideration of importance of child health with regard to public health, significance of researching traditional medicine applications and planning of education studies related to subject, will be understood. In this study which we have done is aimed to; on the one hand assigning of the traditional medicine applications at the rural region; in the other hand, determination of application differences in communities of immigrants. Between of the methods that are known and applied for prevention, treatment and care of childhood diseases that we have determinated at the end of the study; applications as if; swaddling for newborn's hands and foot to be smooth, breastfeeding after waiting to call three times prayer (azan) for newborn's to be patient and salting of the newborn for not being rash in the future; can be counted. There are publications of these applications could be harmful, in the medical literatures. Consequences of the study demonstrate that; most of traditional medicine applications maintain the vitality some of them known well but not applied; although it is easy to acces to modern medicine opportunities and very close to the city center (10 km) among individuals living in this region.
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Anthropology
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2969159136
FWCI: 0.939
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Cited by: 4
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