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At Independence Mozambique inherited a system of health care basically geared to the needs of the Portuguese and concentrated in the towns. In the countryside medicine men and traditional healers s...erved the African population. In 1975, when the FRELIMO Government came to power, one of its first priorities was to expand medicine to serve everyone. But introducing a medical system based on a scientific approach has the problem of acceptance by the general public in a country where superstitions abound, ideas about spirits are widespread and the country faces serious problems of water and food supplied, as well as guerrilla attacks from outside the country. The film looks at how the new health system is affecting nearly everyone in Mozambique, where there are few illusions about the timescale for their development.
At Independence Mozambique inherited a system of health care basically geared to the needs of the Portuguese and concentrated in the towns. In the countryside medicine men and traditional healers s...erved the African population. In 1975, when the FRELIMO Government came to power, one of its first priorities was to expand medicine to serve everyone. But introducing a medical system based on a scientific approach has the problem of acceptance by the general public in a country where superstitions abound, ideas about spirits are widespread and the country faces serious problems of water and food supplied, as well as guerrilla attacks from outside the country. The film looks at how the new health system is affecting nearly everyone in Mozambique, where there are few illusions about the timescale for their development.
| Module code and title: | U204, Third world studies |
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| Item code: | U204; 13 |
| First transmission date: | 21-08-1983 |
| Published: | 1983 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Edward Milner |
| Narrator: | Alton;Adare, Elizabeth Kumalo |
| Contributors: | Salvadore Nhuvunga; Gilberto Amisse; Lucia Miandica; Jacinto Fracisco |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Barefoot doctor; Health care; Mozambique; Traditional medicine |
| Production number: | FOUP129S |
| Videofinder number: | 1249 |
| Available to public: | no |
