@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1216, 

TITLE={Ethnographic survey and evolution of practices in the health sector in rural areas in Burkina Faso}, 
  
AUTHOR={Sidbéwendin David Olivier ILBOUDO, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Science, Technology, Development}, 
	
VOLUME={4}, 

NUMBER={Issue 1}, 
	
YEAR={2024}, 

URL={https://openscience.fr/Ethnographic-survey-and-evolution-of-practices-in-the-health-sector-in-rural}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1216}, 
	
ISSN={2752-6879}, 
	
ABSTRACT={This text describes and analyzes the influence of an ethnographic survey experience on the reconfiguration of micro perceptions and practices in the register of health and illness in rural Burkina Faso. This study aims to see how the relationship with the people surveyed made possible by the use of the ethnographic method has, over the course of the data collection stay, contributed to influencing the adoption of modern healthcare recourse practices by users. health care services, offered in formal health centers in the locality. The methodology is based on an ethnographic field approach carried out over more than ten (10) months of in situ presence in the Hauts Bassins region. During this investigation period, more than one hundred (100) free interviews and as many semi-structured interviews were carried out with a theoretical sample of community actors (people in households and other social places on the site of the study), health workers, informal therapists. However, only around ten semi-structured interviews were used to support the argument of this text. From the results of the study, it appears that the relationship between the researcher and the people surveyed leads to an evolution in therapeutic choice practices. Several people interviewed make more systematic use of modern health services, which was not the case despite the existence of health centers. Ultimately, it therefore follows that ethnography as an activity included in the process of scientific data collection can, through the positioning of the researcher, contribute to improving the use of formal modern health services.}}