Article
Percepciones sobre la salud sexual y reproductiva de las mujeres indígenas Kichwas y Shuaras. Ecuador, 2016
Fecha
2016-09Autor
Ortiz Segarra, José Ignacio
Freire Argudo, Marco Vinicio
Palacios Espinoza, Elvira del Carmen
Vega Crespo, Bernardo José
Jiménez Brito, Doriz Angélica
Campoverde Cisneros, Manuel Alfredo
Muñoz Tigrero, Lorena Cristina Eulalia
Alvarado Verdugo, Libia Graciela
Institución
Resumen
Cervical cancer is a health problem unresolved in developing
countries; this disease is the leading cause of
death from gynecologic cancer in Ecuador. Coverage
of preventive screening is influenced by cultural conceptions
of the population, which are based on the perceptions
of each ethnic group on the etiologic process
health-disease complex.
OBJECTIVE: To interpret the perceptions of women of indigenous
peoples and nationalities Shuar of Sevilla Don
Bosco and Kichwas of Quilloac and Saraguro, about
sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections,
cervical cancer and associated conditions.
METHODOLOGY: A qualitative, phenomenological study
was conducted through 17 focus groups and 13 stories
of life study. A total of 102 people interviewed.
RESULTS: The stories of women understood as collective
constructions of their respective ethnic groups in the
context of a Western, patriarchal and maleness hegemonic
culture, mainly refer to destructive processes of
sexual and reproductive health, manifested as infidelity
and male promiscuity and as the lack of protection
with condoms, which affects the prevalence of sexually
transmitted infections and Cervical Cancer.
CONCLUSIONS: Women have awareness of a broad
concept of health, including notions of sexual and reproductive
health; however, relate obstacles in their full
exercise, related to inequalities of class, gender, and
generational etnia1 expressed as destructive processes
of their health.
KEYWORDS: cervical cancer, sexually transmitted infections,
perceptions, culture, social determination