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Botswana, religious beliefs, health seeking, health provision behaviours, holistic health, medical, traditional and faith healing
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This volume contains articles that were developed from a study contacted in Botswana to establish how religious beliefs impact health seeking and health provision behaviours among Batswana and, from the findings, to propose review of theological, medical and health education for the purposes of promoting holistic health through the integration of medical, traditional and faith healing. The study was conducted between July 2018 and 30 September 2019. The editors and the whole team of researchers are grateful to the Templeton Religion Trust for funding the project and to the Nagel Institute of Calvin University, Michigan, United States of America for administering the funds and the general running of the project.
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