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1. There are three overlapping sectors of healthcare - the popular sector consisting of self-care and advice from family/friends, the folk sector of traditional and spiritual healers, and the professional sector of organized Western medicine.
2. Each sector has its own approaches to explaining and treating illness, defining patient and healer roles, and structuring their therapeutic relationship.
3. Folk healers vary widely but can specialize in sacred or secular healing practices, with some organizing into healer associations. They offer advantages like involving family support but their practices are heterogeneous.
1. There are three overlapping sectors of healthcare - the popular sector consisting of self-care and advice from family/friends, the folk sector of traditional and spiritual healers, and the professional sector of organized Western medicine.
2. Each sector has its own approaches to explaining and treating illness, defining patient and healer roles, and structuring their therapeutic relationship.
3. Folk healers vary widely but can specialize in sacred or secular healing practices, with some organizing into healer associations. They offer advantages like involving family support but their practices are heterogeneous.
1. There are three overlapping sectors of healthcare - the popular sector consisting of self-care and advice from family/friends, the folk sector of traditional and spiritual healers, and the professional sector of organized Western medicine.
2. Each sector has its own approaches to explaining and treating illness, defining patient and healer roles, and structuring their therapeutic relationship.
3. Folk healers vary widely but can specialize in sacred or secular healing practices, with some organizing into healer associations. They offer advantages like involving family support but their practices are heterogeneous.
Caring and curing In most societies people have a number of ways of helping themselves when suffering from physical discomfort or emotional distress. They may, for examples: Decide to rest, or take a home remedy Ask advice from a friend, relative or neighbor Consult a local priest, folk healer, or wise person, Consult a doctor (Cecil G. Helmans) Health care pluralism Any society health care system cannot be studied in isolation from other aspects of the society. (especially its social, religious, political and economic organization). A system of health care has two inter- related aspects: A cultural aspect A social aspect A cultural aspect A cultural aspect including: A basic concept, theories, normative practices, and shared modes of perception A social aspect A social aspect including its organization into certain specified roles (such as patient and doctor), and rules governing relationship between these roles in specialized setting.(such as hospital). In most societies one form of health care, (such as scientific medicine in the West), is elevated above the other forms,. The three sectors of health care There are three overlapping and interconnected sectors of health care: 1. The popular sector 2. The folk sector, and 3. The professional sector
Each sector has its own ways of:
1) explaining and treating ill health, 2) defining who is the healer and who is the patient, and 3) specifying how healer and patient should interact in their therape utic encounter. The Popular sector Characteristics:-The lay,-Non professional-Non specialist domain of society, Where ill health is recognized and defined and health care activities are initiated. It includes all therapeutic options that people utilize, without any payment and without consulting either folk healers or medical practitioners In this sector the main arena of health care is the family; where most ill health is recognized and then treated. The folk sector Is especially large in non-industrial society Certain individuals specialize in form of healing that are sacred or secular, or mixture of the two Wide variation in the types of folk healers, From purely secular and technical experts, s. a : bone- setters, midwives, toot-extractors, herbalist, To spiritual healers, e. g ; clairvoyants and shamans. Folk healers form heterogeneous group, with much individual variation in style and outlook. Folk healer Some time folk healers are organized into associations of healer, with rules of entry, codes of conduct and the sharing of information. Most communities include a mixture of sacred and secular folk healers, in the study of African-American folk healer in low income urban neighborhood in the USA, Snow has described herb doctors, root doctors, spiritualist, conjure men or women, Voodoo houngans or mambos, Folk healers Advantages: The frequent involvement of the family in diagnosis and treatment, Healing the patients sickness places responsibility on both patient and family to participate in healing rites. The focus of attention is not only the patient, but also the reaction of the family and others to the illness. Folk healer People can become folk healer in a number of ways; 1. Inheritance 2. Position within a family 3. Signs and portents at birth 4. Revelation discovering one has the gift, which may occur as an intense emotional experience during an illness, dream or trance. 5. Apprenticeship to another healer. 6. Acquiring a particular skill on ones own. The professional sector The organized, legally sanctioned healing Also known as allopathy or biomedicine Including, physicians (and specialists), paramedical professions and physiotherapist In most countries, scientific medicine is the basis of the professional sector, but, according to Kleinmans note, traditional medical systems may also become professionalized, for examples; the Ayurvedic and Unani medical college in India Baca baca baca . Masih banyak yang belum kita ketahui