Women, doctors, and family health care: some lessons from rural Java.
The following article describes traditional health care systems of rural Indonesian women. It distinguishes the central from the peripheral aspects of systems that women have developed to meet their own needs and contrasts them with modern health care systems. It suggests what can be done to keep the valuable features of each approach.
D000818:Animals; D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D002675:Child, Preschool; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005190:Family; D005192:Family Health; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007267:Injections; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D008880:Midwifery; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care; D011817:Rabbits; D012424:Rural Population; D014930:Women