Herbal Therapies and Social-Health Policies: Indigenous Ati Negrito Women's Dilemma and Reproductive Healthcare Transitions in the Philippines

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ong, Homervergel G ^a   Kim, Young Dong ^a  

^a Hallym University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARDISIA; ARDISIA ELLIPTICA; ARTICLE; BAMBUSA; BAMBUSA VULGARIS; BARK; BLUMEA BALSAMIFERA; CANARIUM ASPERUM; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CHILDBIRTH; CORCHORUS OLITORIUS; FEMALE; FICUS; FICUS NOTA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; KNOWLEDGE; LUNASIA AMARA; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MENSTRUATION RELATED SYNDROME; NEGRITO; NEWBORN CARE; NONHUMAN; PHILIPPINES; PHYSALIS; PHYSALIS ANGULATA; PHYTOTHERAPY; POSTPARTUM RELATED SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UVARIA; UVARIA GRANDIFLORA; VELVET BEAN; VERY ELDERLY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84939498841     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/491209     Document Type: Article

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