Given their substantial role in the primary and public healthcare system, improving nurses' knowledge of CTM through evidence-based nursing education and training remains the surest way to achieve appropriate CTM integration in Africa as outlined in the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023.
Food insecurity is a major concern to individuals, corporate entities and the society at large. This concern has resulted in much efforts being put in place to overcome food insecurity. Despite the efforts being made, the people of Kandiga community still continue to live in an era where their traditional beliefs and values dictate to them how and why funerals should be performed without considering the consequences these funerals will pose on food security. This called for the assessment of whether a traditional funeral rite is a useful tradition or a threat to food security.Methodologically, non-probability sampling was used to select the category of respondents. Under this sampling, purposive and snowball sampling techniques were used to obtain the respondents. Qualitative data was primarily gathered from these respondents using interview guide, focus group discussion, observation, recording and transcribing. Also, secondary data was obtained through reviewing of various literatures such as journals, articles, reports, text books and the internet.The findings indicated that households spent deficit on traditional funeral rites thereby creating food insecurity in Kandiga community. Unfortunately, any support provided by development agencies end up being used by the people to perform their ancient traditional funeral rites creating a cycle of threat to their food security.
The study examines how agricultural land grabbing has affected rural migrant women in Ghana. This has been done through the use of the convergent parallel mixed method of case study design, with emphasis on two land grabbed communities—Kobre in Brong Ahafo region and Agogo in Ashanti region of Ghana. The results showed that the manifestations of land grabbing have led to: (a) Strong experiences of land alienation and thwarted re-connection of rural migrant women to alternative lands; and (b) coerced participation of rural migrant women in low-value economic fields and changes in their geographical positions. These outcomes have affected the livelihood conditions of the migrant women negatively. The study, therefore, recommends the State and other key stakeholders to develop comprehensive guidelines that specifically protect rural migrant women in their access to and use of land and related resources in the phase of land-based investments.
Gender equality is a very common mantra in gender studies but its importance can be undermined. Gender stereotypinghas characterised social value in many communities of the north. The focus of this study has been to examine how cultural practices and beliefs in the patrilineal family system dominated by male discriminate against women and female children.Through well-defined research objectives, the study unveiled how cultural practices and beliefs in the Kasena Nankana Municipality impact on gender equality and further marginalize the women in the communities.The study's main finding was that; gender inequalities still pertains in the study area and this is due to cultural ascription of gender roles. The study further highlighted that, gender socialization perpetuates society' s expectations of what a woman supposed to do in the societies. The behaviours and attitudes of the women in the communities were also considered under the study to determine whether these behaviours contributed to gender inequality in the communities.
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