Are objective measures commonly use in western medicine an public health sufficient for explaining and understanding on the ground within specific cultural systems?

Overall, the health status of Africans since independence has not been good, though significant improvements in areas such as infant mortality rate, under five mortality, and maternal mortality are documented through statistics. Despite the improvements, the majority of Africans remain vulnerable to poor health and disease brought on by the varying degrees and configurations of poverty, manmade disasters, structural adjustment and the debt burden, illiteracy and the wide gender gap , ineffective policies and lack of political leadership. Are objective measures commonly use in western medicine an public health sufficient for explaining and understanding on the ground within specific cultural systems? Be sure to develop your argument in the specific realities of one of the cultures we have studied. TOGO.