Chávez AC, Pol MF, Villaseñor BSJ

Language: Spanish
References: 8
Page: 128-134
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ABSTRACT

The work of Asociación de Médicos Descalzos (Barefoot Physicians Association) is concerned mainly with researching, validating and systematizing traditional health knowledge and practices, as well as promoting and strengthening its practitioners in the Maya medical system in towns in Guatemala, from its base in Chinique. This association has developed a Mental Health program, resulting from a collective, multi-disciplinary, process for over ten years. Its fi rst goal is to create spaces for discussion to get traditional medicine practitioners to become involved and reorganized in Experience Exchange Workshops (Talleres de Intercambio de Experiencias). Guatemala is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual country, with more than 22 ethnic groups, most of them descended from the Mayas, although there are also Garifunas, Xincas and Ladinos. The current public services do not include a permanent mental health component to contribute to the psychosocial recovery of the victims and survivors of the internal armed confl ict, and the other health services are not available to the majority of the population. This paper describes 6 syndromes bound to the Maya culture.

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