This article discusses the development of a simplified RAP (rapid assessment procedures) anthropological field guide for health care providers at the local level. The main purpose of the field guide is to help health care providers to learn what the people in the community know and do to maintain health and prevent and cure illness as well a why they do it so that they can incorporate that knowledge into their health care activities in the community.
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