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Voodoo illness.

J Campinha-Bacote
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Healthcare providers must familiarize themselves with specific culture-bound syndromes and their manifestations in order to provide quality care to culturally diverse clients seeking healthcare services. Voodoo illness is one of several culture-bound syndromes that nurses need to be familiar with, for an inability to understand voodoo illness may result in the client's death (voodoo death).

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J Campinha-Bacote. Voodoo illness.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6163.1992.tb00356.x

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