Why Urban Citizens in Developing Countries Use Traditional Medicines: The Case of Suriname

<table>Relation between plant knowledge (no. of species used) and the use of traditional medicines (odds ratio) among people who did and did not suffer from an illness during the past 12 months. Odds ratio values were obtained from the most parsimonious model (lowest AIC and BIC), as the exponential of the estimates provided by generalized linear models with family binomial.</table>

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Figure 1: Why Urban Citizens in Developing Countries Use Traditional Medicines: The Case of Suriname 