Introduction:

The objective is to comprehend the sexual and reproductive health of teen women of the communities of San José, Tunzará and Veneros in the Indigenous Reserve of San Lorenzo using a perspective that interrelates a description of the individual experiences and perceptions of the reproductive behavior principally with the menarche, a characterization of the access to medical systems, and an analysis of sexual and reproductive health based on structural and group conditions like the indigenous women's options of work.

Development:

For it, researchers chose the qualitative paradigm, more specifically the ethnographic description and interpretation with a quantitative component, and divided the fieldwork into four phases with a total of three months and two weeks, in which they conducted 21 open interviews, 30 semi-structured interviews, 23 reproductive stories, and 3 group discussions.

Conclusions:

This study gives evidence of how sexual and reproductive health of indigenous teen requires a comprehension based on a contextualization and an interrelation of the individual, group and structural level that influence and affect indigenous women to adequate an intercultural health system.

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