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Author : Ulli Steltzer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Health in the Guatemalan Highlands written by Ulli Steltzer and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Luecke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New Dawn in Guatemala written by Richard Luecke and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Carey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520344790
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Health in the Highlands written by David Carey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the early to mid-twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to expand Western medicine within their countries, with the goals of addressing endemic diseases and improving infant and maternal health. These efforts often clashed with indigenous medical practices, particularly in the rural highlands. Drawing on extensive, original archival research, historian David Carey Jr. shows that indigenous populations embraced a syncretic approach to health, combining traditional and new practices. At times, the governments of both nations encouraged--or at least allowed--such a synthesis, yet they also attacked indigenous lifeways, going so far as to criminalize native medical practitioners and to conduct medical experiments on indigenous people without consent. Health in the Highlands traces the experiences of curanderos, midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, and nurses--and the indigenous people they served. Carey interrogates the relationship between 'progressive' public health policy and indigenous well-being, offering lessons from the past that remain relevant in the present. Our best way forward, this history suggests, may be a compassionate syncretism that joins indigenous approaches to healing with science and a pursuit of environmental and social justice"--
Author : Rikki Nitzkin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Health Care Perspectives written by Rikki Nitzkin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Palmer Hawkins
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806138596
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Health Care in Maya Guatemala written by John Palmer Hawkins and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines medical systems and institutions in three K'iche' Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and the Guatemalan biomedical system. It shows the necessity of cultural understanding if poor people are to have access to medicine that combines the best of both local tradition and international biomedicine.
Author : Peter Rohloff
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
ISBN 13 : 161168756X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Guatemala written by Peter Rohloff and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students and health practitioners traveling abroad seek insightful and relevant background material to orient them to the new environment. This volume on Guatemala provides historical, political, and cultural background for contemporary health care challenges, especially related to poverty. Combining the personal insights of the authors and Guatemalan medical personnel with a broader discussion of the uniquely Guatemalan context, it is an essential guide for anyone heading to Guatemala to do health care-related work.
Download or read book Guatemala written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clyde M. Woods
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Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book The Process of Medical Change in a Highland Guatemalan Town written by Clyde M. Woods and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sona M. Yeghiayan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Midwives and Militarization written by Sona M. Yeghiayan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elena Hurtado
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (699 download)
Download or read book Health Seeking Behavior at the Household Level in a Highland Community in Guatemala written by Elena Hurtado and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heidi Maria Zavatone-Veth
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Gender, Maya Identity, and the Multi-level Politics of Forming Community Health Promoters in Highland Guatemala written by Heidi Maria Zavatone-Veth and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the process and politics of training community health promoters in three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the Kaqchikel Maya-speaking region of Guatemala's central highlands in the mid-1990s. Although prior research on community health worker (CHW) programs has tended to focus on the role of either local-level culture or macro-level political economy in affecting CHW participation, this comparative NGO analysis highlights the critical role of local organizations in linking macro and micro-level influences and in shaping the patterns and meaning of CHW participation. In particular, I found that different training approaches had a significant impact on the characteristics of trainees, including their gender and life cycle stage. I argue that from their founding, Guatemalan health promoter programs have helped determine who took on this new health role. I examine three major debates within these programs regarding health promotion, traditional Maya medicine, and women's involvement to elucidate how these NGOs helped form distinct images of health, gender, and ethnic identity through their training philosophies and procedures, thereby contributing to changes in individual promoter lives and to broader social identity movements. I suggest that conflicts over the debate issues arose from shifting and often contradictory ideas and material conditions at different levels regarding health work, Maya identity, and gender, which often left NGO trainers and promoters caught in the middle. In addition to revealing inconsistencies in macro-level policies, this study demonstrates variability in views and practices at the local community level, belying any simple conclusions about the impact of â€local culture.†Furthermore, the NGO comparison highlights how organization traits including the health promotion philosophy, training scale, and staff composition influenced the ways organizations approached health, gender, and Maya identity. By showing the multi-level dynamics involved, this research calls into question common assumptions about the ability of local NGOs and CHWs to connect easily with local communities and represent community interests. I argue that the complex, multi-level politics of CHW participation has implications for theory, ethics, and practice in the fields of anthropology and international health.
Author : Anita Chary
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498505384
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism written by Anita Chary and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically endured numerous disparities in health and healthcare access. The collection provides an updated understanding of medical pluralism, which concerns not only the tensions and exchanges between ethnomedicine and biomedicine that have historically shaped Maya people’s experiences of health, but also the multiple competing biomedical institutions that have emerged in a highly privatized, market-driven environment of care. The contributors examine the macro-structural and micro-level implications of the proliferation of non-governmental organizations, private fee-for-service clinics, and new pharmaceuticals against the backdrop of a deteriorating public health system. In this environment, health seekers encounter new challenges and opportunities, relationships between the public, private, and civil sectors transform, and new forms of inequality in access to healthcare abound. This volume connects these themes to critical studies of global and public health, exposing the strictures and apertures of healthcare privatization for marginalized populations in Guatemala.
Author : Jonathan N. Maupin.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Fruit of the Accords written by Jonathan N. Maupin. and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jody Glittenberg
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 147860879X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book To the Mountain and Back written by Jody Glittenberg and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1994-03-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the cultures of rural Guatemala in a uniquely vivid manner! Glittenbergs involving account traces her work experiences in highland Guatemala and her own growth as a nurse, an anthropologist, and a person becoming aware of the world community. During her first trip she worked as an unwelcome visiting nurse at the famous Behrhorst Hospital. Later, she returns to Guatemala with her family to conduct a year of fieldwork in two highland townsthe Ladino town of Zaragoza and the town of Indian Power, Patzun. Her year is a richly colorful account of the puzzles and problems of two distinct cultures seized by poverty and oppression. Glittenberg returns once again in 1974, during a terrible time. The terror has increased, and the population has suffered a devastating earthquake. But this time she has come back to help, to make a difference and to give help in a country where once a personal crisis was how to order a scrambled egg.
Author : Haley Minae Ciborowski
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Health Implications and Social Network Dynamics of Emigration and Depressive Symptoms Among "left-behind" Indigenous Maya in the Western Highlands of Guatemala written by Haley Minae Ciborowski and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Migrants from countries in the Northern Triangle made up 92% of attempted crossings on the United States Southern international border in 2021; Guatemala is the top sending country in that region. Scholarship in Guatemala has focused on escape from violence and economic opportunity as reasons for migration; however, drivers of migration are more complex, including "aspirations" of transnational families and influences of social networks. Furthermore, few studies have addressed the mental health distress caused by being "left-behind" to migration in Guatemala. Social network characteristics may moderate some mental health impacts of migration, but this has not been investigated using socio-centric network data from Central American migrant-sending communities. Methods: This dissertation includes three studies undertaken in partnership with participants using CBPR. Study 1 leverages data from focus groups and Photovoice interviews to investigate perceived changes from migration impacting community health. Qualitative results informed the research questions in studies 2 and 3. Studies 2 and 3 use data from a census of a representative community in the region. Study 2 evaluates the demographics, social network characteristics, and network dynamics influencing migration decisions. In study 3, we evaluate the relationship between migration and depressive symptoms, and the social network characteristics that may moderate that relationship. Results: Migration impacts rural communities in Guatemala in several ways, including mental health distress among those left-behind (Study 1). Twenty-two percent of the population had plans to migrate. Having a child emigrate reduced the odds of migration (OR 0.08). A spouse remaining was predictive of migration (OR 2.38) (Study 2). Having emigrant ties in the US increased the odds of depression (OR 1.11), as did a higher out-degree. Higher transitivity scores, especially for women, moderated the relationship between migrant ties and depression (Study 3). Conclusions: Migration changes social structures in rural Guatemalan communities, resulting in feelings of sadness and loss. Social network characteristics influence migration decisions among transnational families. Migration from the region is not slowing, so understanding the mental health impacts in migrant-sending communities is imperative. Social network characteristics should be explored in further research as potential assets to ease mental health burdens among those left-behind.
Author : Kulsum Ahmed
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821360825
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Environmental Health and Traditional Fuel Use in Guatemala written by Kulsum Ahmed and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing recognition of the harmful effects of indoor air pollution on health, with recent WHO estimates indicating that indoor smoke from solid fuels causes 1.6 million deaths annually and accounts for 2.7 percent of the global burden of disease. This publication examines the adverse health impacts of indoor air pollution, particularly on children, from fuel use in Guatemala, where the vast majority of poor, rural households use fuelwood as the dominant cooking fuel. It draws on case studies of improved stove programmes to highlight the problem and to explore technical mitigation measures and policy options to improve accessibility to cleaner fuels.
Author : George Cheever Shattuck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Medical Survey of the Republic of Guatemala written by George Cheever Shattuck and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
