Andes; change; cross cultural communication; oral rehydration therapy
Indexed keywords
BOLIVIA;
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY;
EDUCATION;
ETHNIC GROUP;
ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS;
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION;
HUMAN;
MEDICAL EDUCATION;
METHODOLOGY;
NORMAL HUMAN;
NURSING EDUCATION;
POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION;
REHYDRATION;
RURAL POPULATION;
SHORT SURVEY;
SOCIAL ASPECT;
THERAPY;
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;
BOLIVIA;
COMMUNICATION;
COMMUNICATION BARRIERS;
HEALTH EDUCATION;
HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS;
HUMAN;
INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN;
MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL;
PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;
South American Indians between traditional and modern health services in rural Ecuador
See also, Kroeger found similar conditions in rural Ecuador. Major reasons given for not using modern health facilities were their lack of cultural, geographic, and financial accesibility. He concludes that modern services must be cultural and ecologically adapted to local conditions.
Anthropologist's involvement in Central American diarrhea control project
Paper presented at the, Schrimshaw and Hurtado improvised a similar enquiry among health workers in Central America. In this exercise, the staff were asked to fill in a taxonomy of diarrhea according to vertical categories of cause, symptoms, and treatment cross listed with horizontal categories of mother, food, tooth eruption, fallen stomach, evil eye, cold, and dysentery. In another exercise, the staff listed home and folk cures, divided into drinks, mechanical, enemas, and baths, on one side and pharmacmaceutical cures on the other side. The authors reported that these exercises were quick, simple strategies for gathering information and informing staff of traditional practices. These authors and I agree that the challenge is not only to investigate traditional practices but also to find ways to make them useful in a rapid, clear, and meaningful way for such diverse audiences as clinicians, basic researchers, health educators, and program [[Truncated]]
See, University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif, for a discussion of the therapeutic value of communication between practitioners and clients in Taiwan. He writes, “What sets indigenous communication off from that of Western medical practice is not the tendency toward authoritarian, practitioner-dominated communication, which both share, but the sensitivity to client EMs and the use of psychosocially meaningful explanations.” This is also true of m mod’.
