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Percepciones sobre la salud sexual y reproductiva de las mujeres indígenas Kichwas y Shuaras. Ecuador 2016
(2016)
Cervical cancer is a health problem unresolved in de-veloping countries; this disease is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancer in Ecuador. Coverage of preventive screening is influenced by ...
Estudio cualitativo sobre el Malestar: Perspectivas de la medicina tradicional en Cuenca, El Tambo y Saraguro - Ecuador
(2017)
Antecedents and objective: The Andean cosmo-vision looks at the reality according to its paradigms, laws and principles based on the observation of nature and an analogical reasoning; the discomfort or disease has been ...
Perceptions of Ecuadorian indigenous healers on their relationship with the formal health care system: barriers and opportunities
(2021)
The new paradigm of intercultural policies focuses on rethinking the common public culture. In Ecuador, the “Buen Vivir” plan seeks to incorporate the ancestral medical knowledge, experience and beliefs of traditional ...
Onomastic misnomers in the construction of faulty andeanity and weak andeaness: biocultural microrefugia in the Andes
(2019)
We seek to (re)construct a geocritical narrative for the essence of place, by (re)writing mountain specificities that imprint cultural traits on tropical and temperate Andean landscapes, creating a unique identity trilemma ...
Towards an indigenous definition of health: an explorative study to understand the indigenous ecuadorian people's health and illness concepts
(2020)
Abstract Backgrounds An intercultural society facilitates equitable and respectful interrelations. Knowing and understanding each other’s sociocultural and linguitic contexts is a prerequisite for an intercultural society. ...
Prevalence of rheumatic diseases and quality of life in the Saraguro indigenous people, Ecuador: a cross-sectional community-based study
(2020)
Rheumatic diseases are more prevalent and aggressive in indigenous population groups, providing medical attention for which poses a challenge for the rheumatologist. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of musculoskeletal ...