Medicina occidental y otras alternativas: ¿es posible su complementariedad? Reflexiones conceptuales
AUTOR(ES)
Duarte Gómez, María Beatriz
FONTE
Cadernos de Saúde Pública
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2003-04
RESUMO
The present article is part of a series of reflections from an intercultural approach to health systems and corresponding public policies, motivated by findings from a study on two intercultural hospitals in rural Mexico. The frequent utilization of complementary and alternative medicines by the local population and the hegemonic health model that excludes them make the existing health system an unsatisfactory response to people's needs. We present the concept of complementariness as a health system component and propose priorities on this issue, taking different approaches: complementariness as a public policy, as an institutional project, or as an individual decision by the therapist or patient.
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