The Awakening of Collaboration between Quichua Healers and Psychiatrists in the Andes

Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 79-91

  Bouchard, Lise ^a  

^a Runajambi Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Awakening of collaboration between Quichua Healers and psychiatrists in Andes; Bringing awareness on Quichua and indigenous health related themes; First integrative community based clinic in Huacsara, a few miles north of Otavalo; Goal of Jambihuasi combining Quichua and Western medicine and imparting community based health care services and health education to Quichua people; Health disparities and health care inequities; Indigenous people of Andes relying on traditional healers to cope with suffering and mental illness; Quichua communities using own traditional medicine system for centuries; Quichua community response to Jambihuasi; Quichua response Jambihuasi; Unusual integrated Quichua Western health care center

Indexed keywords

EID: 72849107097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470741054.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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