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Title Fostered children's perception of their health care and illness treatment in Ekiti Yoruba households, Nigeria
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41207
Date 1995
Author(s) Oni, Jacob Bamidele
Contributor(s) Caldwell, John C.; Santow, Gigi
Abstract This paper reports the findings from both quantitative and qualitative fieldwork conducted in six Ekiti Yoruba communities of southwestern Nigeria on the treatment of child illness within households. Relying heavily on data from focus group discussions, it shows how fostered children use local proverbs and day-to-day common sayings to describe their perception of the responses to and treatment of their illnesses in a very different way from that of the foster parents. Parents' responses and treatment of fostered and non-fostered children's illnesses were compared. Both the qualitative and quantitative evidence from the study showed that treatments were delayed for foster-children in comparison to own children, and foster-parents were found to be less sensitive to foster-child illness, which they often suspected was used to avoid housework. The different responses to, and treatment of, foster-children's illnesses are important for the understanding of the probable effects on differential morbidity, and possibly mortality, between fostered and nonfostered children. - no
Subject(s) Foster children; Nigeria; foster parents; child health care; foster child illness; mdcn-hlth; mdcn-pdtr; scls-bhvr; scls-psyc
Language en_AU
Publisher Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Type of publication pjournal
Format 55356 bytes; application/pdf
Rights yes
Identifier apr; 1; 21-34; Health Transition Review; 5; 1995; 831
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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