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Traditional beliefs and access to modern medicine: demand for maternal and child health care in rural Guinea Bissau
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This Work Projectwasborn and builtinthecontextoftheBelief Systems and Health Behaviors in Guinea-Bissau project. This dissertation explores the relationship between access to healthcare and traditional beliefs as drivers of modern medical care demand. Access to health facilities is a widespread barrier to the adoption of preventive and treatment health measures. In addition, traditional beliefs and consequent cultural behaviors are also a barrier to medical care seeking behavior. This thesis explores how the magnitude of believing in traditional theories evolves has the distance to the nearest health facility increases.
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Development economics Access to care Traditional beliefs Maternal health care Child health care Guinea-Bissau