Does spatial location matter? Traditional therapy utilisation among the general population in a Ghanaian rural and urban setting

- We conducted spatial analysis of traditional medicine utilisation in the Ashanti Region, Ghana. Use of traditional medicine is a dominant health care practice in Ghana.
- Biologically-based therapies and energy healing are the common modalities of traditional medicine.
- No significant variation exists in traditional medicine use between rural-urban divide.
- Knowledge sources, forms and sources of traditional medicine differ across space.