Public health refers to both the health of a population via popular health indicators (quantitative and qualitative, including access to care), and all capable of collective healing, promote health and improve living conditions. It is intertwined with religious beliefs and animist, and the role of healer (shaman, sorcerers, etc..) that use both the local pharmacopoeia, touch and practices of magic, divination, or psychology.

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