Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers
Incayawar, Mario (Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health, Otavalo, Ecuador) / Wintrob, Ronald (Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA) / Bouchard, Lise (South Dakota State University, USA)
Up to 85 percent of the world's population relies on traditional healers and medicines to meet their health care needs. In Uganda, for example, the ratio of traditional healers to population is 1:200, contrasting dramatically with biomedically trained health professionals, for which the ratio is 1:20, 000. In the Andes of South America, there are no psychiatric or mental health services available to the Indigenous Peoples who therefore depend ...