Findings indicate that traditional and modern medicines will always be part of Ghanaian healthcare delivery and efforts should be made to integrate traditional practitioners into the national healthcare delivery system.

This study explored 19 rural dwellers' perceptions of health care issues through semi-structured interviews. Sample selection, data collection, and analysis adhered to the grounded theory method in that an interactive design was maintained. The strategy of traveling for care describes how rural dwellers deal with the problem of varying access to health care. This study uncovers the influencing factors that impact on rural dwellers' decisions when traveling for care. Most rural dwellers choose to wait before seeking health care; those factors that contributed to the decision to wait includes limited financial resources to pay for health care, prior experiences within the system, and the prevalent belief that they can provide self-care effectively. When self-care was not successful they evaluated their resources to assist in their decision making. The last phase of this strategy was choosing the distance they would go to receive health care. Choosing the distance varied greatly among the participants. A few choose to go without health care whereas others would go to any lengths to resolve their health problem.

Homeless mothers with children are a vulnerable population that faces problems from multiple sources. Little is known about their experiences, as current homeless studies report women's data as part of the aggregate findings with men. This study sought to identify the dimension of homeless mothers' family caring in a shelter. In-depth interviews were conducted with six homeless mothers who were participants in a larger study of homeless women. Constant comparative analysis of transcribed interviews led to the identification of homeless mothers' caring behaviors for their children. These behaviors were sacrificing for children, struggling with limitations, guarding from harm, and seeking answers. This taxonomy reflects the pain and hardship these homeless families experience while living a human disaster.

The caregiving literature has focused on European-American caregivers who are providing care to spouses or parents with Alzheimer's disease. The article reports ethnographic research exploring aspects of caregiving by rural African-American mothers for adult children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease. Eight African-American mothers were interviewed to elicit cultural domains of caregiving. Two major domains were a personal relationship with God and God's will. Taken together, these domains framed the context in which African-American mothers understood HIV disease, provided care, and resolved the death of their adult child.

An increase in the number of individuals who are homeless since the 1980s has made homelessness a major social, economic, and political problem in the United States. The number of homeless in this country is estimated as high as 3 million, with women and children constituting the fastest growing subgroup of this population. A study of eight homeless women using a shelter in a southeastern city was conducted to explore the experience of homelessness from the women's perspectives. A modified ethnographic approach using a semistructured interview provided qualitative data. The constant comparative method of analysis identified themes of heightened awareness, guarding, identification of needs, and strategies for resolution. This study provides a new understanding of how some women experience homelessness, as well as the responses they take to solve this problem.