Patient-centered boundary mechanisms to foster intercultural partnerships in health care: a case study in Guatemala

Patient-centered boundary mechanisms to foster intercultural partnerships in health care: a case study in Guatemala

Abstract Background Up to one half of the population in Africa, Asia and Latin America has little access to high-quality biomedical services and relies on traditional health systems. Medical pluralism is thus in many developing countries the rule rather than the exception, which is why the World Hea...

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Main Authors: Martin Hitziger, Mónica Berger Gonzalez, Eduardo Gharzouzi, Daniela Ochaíta Santizo, Regina Solis Miranda, Andrea Isabel Aguilar Ferro, Ana Vides-Porras, Michael Heinrich, Peter Edwards, Pius Krütli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Subjects:
Boundary management
Partnerships
Intercultural health
Integrative medicine
Traditional medicine
Mayan medicine
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13002-017-0170-y

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