Indigenous Santal People Sense and Etiology Regarding Black Fever Illness

Md. Yeamin Ali; Md. Redwanur Rahman; Akib Javed; Arook Toppo; Mst. Rupali Akhtar

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Indigenous Santal People Sense and Etiology Regarding Black Fever Illness

Md. Yeamin Ali, Md. Redwanur Rahman, Akib Javed, Arook Toppo, Mst. Rupali Akhtar

Published in American Journal of Health Research (Volume 4, Issue 5)

Received: 8 August 2016 Accepted: 19 August 2016 Published: 9 October 2016

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Abstract

The study aim is to know indigenous people perception, diagnosis and etiology about black fever. The perception of black fever differs to them. To them, black fever means curse of God, black power and black magic. 70% patients know about black fever through NGO or medical test. Indigenous Santal people said about different physical characteristics of black fever. Those are angry, cold felling and avoiding rice, headache, lack of blood, birth of dead children, belly become big and stop menstruation, loss of weight and strength etc. People’s knowledge about black fever, long time to recognize black fever, belief in supernatural power, belief it is touchable and fear about stigma effect on treatment of black fever patient. 78% patients believe their poor knowledge regarding black fever affect treatment process. After taking treatment from NGO or medical center 45% people didn’t face any side effect and rest of them face side effect.

Published in	American Journal of Health Research (Volume 4, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajhr.20160405.16
Page(s)	143-150
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Indigenous, Santal People, Sense, Etiology, Black Fever, Bangladesh

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Md. Yeamin Ali, Md. Redwanur Rahman, Akib Javed, Arook Toppo, Mst. Rupali Akhtar. (2016). Indigenous Santal People Sense and Etiology Regarding Black Fever Illness. American Journal of Health Research, 4(5), 143-150. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajhr.20160405.16

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Md. Yeamin Ali; Md. Redwanur Rahman; Akib Javed; Arook Toppo; Mst. Rupali Akhtar. Indigenous Santal People Sense and Etiology Regarding Black Fever Illness. Am. J. Health Res. 2016, 4(5), 143-150. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.20160405.16

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Md. Yeamin Ali, Md. Redwanur Rahman, Akib Javed, Arook Toppo, Mst. Rupali Akhtar. Indigenous Santal People Sense and Etiology Regarding Black Fever Illness. Am J Health Res. 2016;4(5):143-150. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.20160405.16

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Md. Yeamin Ali

Institute of Environmental Science, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Md. Redwanur Rahman

Institute of Environmental Science, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Akib Javed

Department of Geography and Environment Studies, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Arook Toppo

Institute of Environmental Science, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Mst. Rupali Akhtar

Department of Political Science, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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Md. Yeamin Ali, Md. Redwanur Rahman, Akib Javed, Arook Toppo, Mst. Rupali Akhtar. (2016). Indigenous Santal People Sense and Etiology Regarding Black Fever Illness. American Journal of Health Research, 4(5), 143-150. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajhr.20160405.16

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Md. Yeamin Ali; Md. Redwanur Rahman; Akib Javed; Arook Toppo; Mst. Rupali Akhtar. Indigenous Santal People Sense and Etiology Regarding Black Fever Illness. Am. J. Health Res. 2016, 4(5), 143-150. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.20160405.16

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Md. Yeamin Ali, Md. Redwanur Rahman, Akib Javed, Arook Toppo, Mst. Rupali Akhtar. Indigenous Santal People Sense and Etiology Regarding Black Fever Illness. Am J Health Res. 2016;4(5):143-150. doi: 10.11648/j.ajhr.20160405.16

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  abstract = {The study aim is to know indigenous people perception, diagnosis and etiology about black fever. The perception of black fever differs to them. To them, black fever means curse of God, black power and black magic. 70% patients know about black fever through NGO or medical test. Indigenous Santal people said about different physical characteristics of black fever. Those are angry, cold felling and avoiding rice, headache, lack of blood, birth of dead children, belly become big and stop menstruation, loss of weight and strength etc. People’s knowledge about black fever, long time to recognize black fever, belief in supernatural power, belief it is touchable and fear about stigma effect on treatment of black fever patient. 78% patients believe their poor knowledge regarding black fever affect treatment process. After taking treatment from NGO or medical center 45% people didn’t face any side effect and rest of them face side effect.},
 year = {2016}
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