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Motivations for food prohibitions during pregnancy and their enforcement mechanisms in a rural Ghanaian district

Arzoaquoi SK 1 , Essuman EE 2 , Gbagbo FY 3 , Tenkorang EY 4 , Soyiri I 5 , Laar AK 6

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, Box LG 13, Legon, Accra, Ghana. [email protected]
  • 2 Department of Biological Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Box LG 13, Legon, Accra, Ghana. [email protected]
  • 3 Marie Stopes International, Accra, Ghana. [email protected]
  • 4 Department of Sociology, Memorial University, St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada. [email protected]
  • 5 South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO) School of Medicine & Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences MONASH University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia. [email protected]
  • 6 Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, Box LG 13, Legon, Accra, Ghana. [email protected]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2015;11:59.
PMID: 26182983 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-015-0044-0

Abstract

Food taboos are known from virtually all human societies and pregnant women have often been targeted. We qualitatively assessed food taboos during pregnancy, its motivating factors, and enforcement mechanisms in the Upper Manya Krobo district of Ghana.

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