title: The attitudes of medical and traditional doctors toward integration of the governmental health services in the western states of Nigeria.
abstract: It seems that there may be some benefits to be derived from the integration of traditional practitioners into the government health delivery system. The adoption of such a policy may serve to solve several of the major health problems, the most apparent being: the shortage of government medical manpower; the high mortality and morbidity resulting from preventible disease; the lack of adequate medical government care in rural areas; and a general distrust by the people of scientific medical care possibly due to their close adherence to the treatment given by traditional doctors.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006296:Health Services; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous; D006801:Humans; D009549:Nigeria; D013222:State Medicine