@prefix dcat: . @prefix dct: . @prefix foaf: . @prefix vcard: . @prefix xsd: . a dcat:Dataset ; dct:description """ In Côte d'Ivoire, the issue of access to care remains unanswered due to the lack of good public health infrastructure and very limited financial resources. As a result, poor and disadvantage people often prefer to address their priority health needs to traditional healers. However, the lack of evidence data in a context of plurality of care is a handicap for the definition an efficient oral health strategy. The main objectives of this study were to describe the activities of traditional healers practicing in the department of Dabou and determine the various factors influencing the populations in using them or not in oral. The cross-sectional pilot study focused on 28 traditional healers and 927 adults. The results showed that the consultations represented 1/5 of all the activities of the traditional healers. The majority of traditional healers reported that they were called to heal oral pain of patients and were ready to work with conventional medicine. Traditional healers declared to be satisfied by the level of fees. However 15 traditional healers reported to have another job. Vegetable and mineral resources were mainly used for making medicines. Regarding the survey of users, the main determinant of seeking care was the educational level of respondents. While no schooling adults visited in priority traditional healers, those who had health insurance and those who had secondary educational level or more preferably consulted the dentist. Adults with secondary educational level or more claimed to have been to a traditional healer because of its proximity. The effectiveness of care as a reason for attending a traditional healer was more often mentioned by adults within 30 and 44 years, by adults living in urban areas and those living at a distance of more than 15 km from the dental office. Seeking modern treatment because of the confidence and the cleanliness in dental offices was more the fact of adults living in a modern home. The renunciation of traditional care because of self-medication was more often reported by women. Abandoning the traditional treatments because of failure to perceive the need of care was mentioned by adults ranged between 5 and 15 km from the dental practice. Lack of financial resources was cited by most adults living in urban areas to justify the renunciation to modern health care. Failure to perceive needs for care was mentioned by adults ranged between 5 and 15 km from office dental to justify their abandonment of modern oral health care. This study gave evidence of the complex relationship between access to oral health care and the level of poverty. Thus, improving access to oral health care must fit into the overall framework of the fight against social inequality, illiteracy and the territory development. In addition, traditional odontology should be valued and integrated in any strategy the health system given the low level of current financial resources to the public health sector in Côte d’Ivoire """ ; dct:identifier "NNT: 2011LYO10047" ; dct:issued "2026-05-10T08:19:26.031771"^^xsd:dateTime ; dct:language "fr" ; dct:modified "2026-05-10T08:19:26.031776"^^xsd:dateTime ; dct:publisher ; dct:title "Oral health behaviour and factors of care seeking in the department of Dabou - Côte d'Ivoire" ; dcat:contactPoint [ a vcard:Organization ; vcard:fn "CCSD" ] ; dcat:distribution ; dcat:keyword "accessibilite", "accessibility", "cote-divoire", "determinants-socio-demographiques", "indicateurs", "indicators", "infoeu-reposemanticsdoctoralthesis", "medecine-traditionnelle", "oral-health", "sante-bucco-dentaire", "sdvmheplife-sciences-q-biohuman-health-and-pathology", "sociodemographic-determinants", "theses", "traditional-medicine" ; dcat:landingPage . a dcat:Distribution ; dct:format "HTML" ; dct:issued "2026-05-10T08:19:26.034178"^^xsd:dateTime ; dct:modified "2026-05-10T08:19:26.014753"^^xsd:dateTime ; dct:title "Oral health behaviour and factors of care seeking in the department of Dabou - Côte d'Ivoire" ; dcat:accessURL . a foaf:Agent ; foaf:name "test_moissonnage_selune" . a foaf:Document .