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Políticas nacionales de salud y decisiones locales en México: el caso del Hospital Mixto de Cuetzalan, Puebla
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Duarte-Gómez, Maria Beatriz Brachet-Márquez, Viviane Campos-Navarro, Roberto Nigenda, Gustavo |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | Objective. To identify the changes brought about by various national and international factors in an intercultural hospital of the municipality of Cuetzalan, Puebla. Material and Methods. A case study was conducted during 2000 and 2001 in two Intercultural Hospitals of Mexico; the Cuetzalan Hospital in Puebla and the Jesus Maria Hospital in Nayarit State. Data were collected by means of 72 semistructured interviews with allopathic therapists, indigenous therapists, and authorities of the different health care levels. Moreover, documental research was carried out on national policies for indigenous peoples as well as on indigenist policies. These policies were related with the five organizational stages of the hospital. State authorities gave their permission and interviewees signed informed consent. Results. The hospital was created in 1958 by the Ministry of Health as a biomedical institution, in agreement with the integrationist indigenist policies going on at the time. It remained so during the beginning of the administration by the National Indigenist Institute. In 1990, the new participative indigenist policy trends and the creativity and sensitivity of some authorities, under the influence of international strategies, helped to transform the hospital into an Intercultural Hospital (offering both types of medicine, indigenous and |
| Starting Page | 388 |
| Ending Page | 398 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1590/S0036-36342004000500005 |
| Volume Number | 46 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.medigraphic.com/pdfs/salpubmex/sal-2004/sal045c.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.saludpublica.mx/index.php/spm/article/download/6557/8066 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/spm/v46n5/a04v46n5.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-36342004000500005 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |