TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES AND CHOICE
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
With proliferation of treatment options, the importance of the inter-relationship between treatment choices, how choice is made, what influence the choice of treatment for the illness becomes important. Illnesses are generally classified into two groups: those that are curable with modern medicine, and those that can be successfully treated only with folk curing method (Foster, 1958). Treatment choices, in this view, then become predictable on the basis of the diagnostic category of the particular episode, and its status relative to this “folk dichotomy.” Studies (De Walt, 1977) have focussed primarily on the characteristics of the people tending to use different treatment sources. This study asserts that some people in a community use different treatment alternatives because they have different beliefs or expectations about their effectiveness. Accordingly, individual characteristics such as educational level, acculturative status, age and sex would seem likely to show significant relationships with treatment choices. In an attempt to treat illness people make choice from several possible courses of action available to them. Pluralistic health care system is common in rural communities. The question of choice becomes even more significant in non-western settings, where modern medical services, often only recently having become available, represent alternatives to longer established traditional medical practices and native curing specialists. (Acheson, 1972) People in such settings have varied options and they make a choice from two or more distinct system of medical knowledge and practice in seeking treatment. There is generally a misconception that the choice of treatment involves only two alternatives: traditional and modern medicine. In fact, there are multiple sources of both modern and traditional medical treatment. There exist several major alternatives, including self-treatment.
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Pebam Krishna Kumari
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