Conclusions: The take-home lesson for health policy-makers from this study is that the main obstacle to improved use of biomedicine in resource-poor rural areas might not be infrastructural or economic alone. Rather, it may lie in lack of sufficient recognition by biomedical practitioners of the value and importance of indigenous medical systems. We propose that the implementation of health care in indigenous communities be designed as a process of joint development of complementary knowledge and practices from indigenous and biomedical health traditions.
Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Ina Vandebroek, and Stephan Rist, 2012
http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15782:south-america-can-andean-medicine-coexist-with-biomedical-healthcare-a-comparison-of-two-rural-communities-in-peru-and-bolivia&catid=23:south-america-indigenous-peoples&Itemid=56
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