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Fever: A Literature Review of Perceptions, Perspectives and Practices
Adeniyi Adeboye1*, Rafeek A Yusuf2 and Olusimbo K Ige3
1Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
2Department of Management, Policy and Community Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
3Department of Community Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
- *Corresponding Author:
- Adeniyi Adeboye
Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX, USA
Tel: +447960266152
E-mail: adeboye05@yahoo.co.uk
Received date: September 26, 2017; Accepted date: November 03, 2017; Published date: November 06, 2017
Citation: Adeboye A, Yusuf RA, Ige OK (2017) Fever: A Literature Review of Perceptions, Perspectives and Practices. J Tradit Med Clin Natur 6:249.
Copyright: © 2017 Adeboye A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Previous and extant studies on home management of childhood fever among caregivers in most contexts have shown that the perceptions, perspectives and common practices associated with fever have not changed significantly. Generally, caregivers in all contexts are still managing childhood fever aggressively due to fever phobia. In particular, caregivers in resource poor countries such as sub-Saharan Africa still have cultural believes about fever which often underscores the pervasive hybrid of traditional and inadequate orthodox approaches to home management of fever. There is thus need for culturally sensitive and competent health literacy interventions to mitigate deleterious impacts of perceptions, perspectives and common practices related to home management of fever universally.
