title: Voodoo illness.
abstract: Healthcare providers must familiarize themselves with specific culture-bound syndromes and their manifestations in order to provide quality care to culturally diverse clients seeking healthcare services. Voodoo illness is one of several culture-bound syndromes that nurses need to be familiar with, for an inability to understand voodoo illness may result in the client's death (voodoo death).
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Campinha-Bacote
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008273:Magic; D016488:Medicine, African Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015399:Nursing Research; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000379:methods*