TY - JOUR AU - Zuma, Thembelihle AU - Wight, Daniel AU - Rochat, Tamsen AU - Moshabela, Mosa PY - 2016 DA - 2016/08/22 TI - The role of traditional health practitioners in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: generic or mode specific? JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 304 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Traditional health practitioners (THPs) play a vital role in the health care of the majority of the South African population and elsewhere on the African continent. However, many studies have challenged the role of THPs in health care. Concerns raised in the literature include the rationale, safety and effectiveness of traditional health practices and methods, as well as what informs them. This paper explores the processes followed in becoming a traditional healer and how these processes are related to THP roles. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-016-1293-8 DO - 10.1186/s12906-016-1293-8 ID - Zuma2016 ER -