Do pharmaceuticals displace local knowledge and use of medicinal plants? Estimates from a cross-sectional study in a rural indigenous community, Mexico

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 928-936

  Giovannini, Peter ^a,b   Reyes García, Victoria ^c   Waldstein, Anna ^b   Heinrich, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Mazatecs; Medicinal plants; M xico; Pharmaceuticals; Self treatment; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

666; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BICARBONATE; BISMUTH SALICYLATE; CAFI ASPIRINA; DIPYRONE; MERTIOLATE; METRONIDAZOLE; MICOTEX; NEO MELUBRINA; PENICILLIN G; PENPROCILINA; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; RESPICIL; THIOMERSAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DRUG; ETHNOBOTANY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ABELMOSCHUS MOSCHATUS; ADULT; AGERATUM CORYMBOSUM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AVOCADO; BIOMEDICINE; BURSERA SIMARUBA; CEDRELA ODORATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTON DRACO; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOGRAPHY; EUPATORIUM MORIFOLIUM; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MATRICARIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEXICO; NEUROLAENA MACROCEPHALA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PHLEBODIUM AREOLATUM; PILEA MICROPHYLLA; RURAL AREA; SELF MEDICATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOLENOSTENOM SCUTELLARIOIDES; TOURNEFORTIA GLABRA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRIMEZIA STEYERMARKII; VALERIANA SCANDENS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; OAXACA;

EID: 79953095313     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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