Traditional health practices: A qualitative inquiry among traditional health practitioners in northern Uganda on becoming a healer, perceived causes of illnesses, and diagnostic approaches

• Amos Deogratius Mwaka ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mgratius@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7952-2327

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• Jennifer Achan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Msakerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Christopher Garimoi Orach

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Msakerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Community Health & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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