Abstract

GUZMAN-ROSAS, Susana Carolina. Interculturality in Health: A Convergence Space between Two Knowledge Systems. Rev. Gerenc. Polit. Salud [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.31, pp.10-29. ISSN 1657-7027.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.rgyps15-31.isec.

In Mexico the interculturalism in health appears as an ideal policy for the indigenous health care, nevertheless this one implies the convergence of two systems of knowledge and it allows to examine his implementation. From an anthropologic perspective, the relevancy of the interculturalism in health was analyzed in one area of indigenous medical coverage. Through one mixed ethnographic approach 35 questionnaires were applied to the medical personnel of General Hospital of Ciudad Valles from August 2012 to January 2013. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, complementing them with interviews and participant observation. It was found that an important recognition exists about the traditional indigenous knowledge (77%) and the medicinal plants (80%) inside medical practice because the majority of physicians (89%) received patients who used them, consequently they consider pertinent the implementation of health care policy that integrates the indigenous traditional knowledge to the medical practicetion of the institutions, where they appear on scene and negotiate different regulation logics.

Keywords : cultural diversity; ethnic groups; health services, indigenous; plants, medicinal; medicine, traditional; Mexico.

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