Cuidados populares medicalizados, cuidados biomédicos popularizados. La inclusión de las parteras tradicionales en el sistema de salud del oriente de Guatemala

Abstract

Needs for increasing percentages of health care in Guatemala gave way to health decentralization in order to include ancient and traditional midwifes to cover and improve health participation in rural areas. Discussion on advantages and inconveniences of this fact are discussed here. There is a criticism on whether figures are real regarding bio-medical cover. The supposed to be community participation in the multi-cultural dayto-day care as is described here, implies not only a more than a simple process of medical education but various different ways of approaching understanding and caring for health problems and even understanding an assuming world in many ways. In many occasions figures stated here on education and consequent medical attention are far from real bio-medical attention patterns which seem to demonstrate such figures are nearer to a type of care where non-specialist and professional, popular and bio-medical attention overlap and mingle.

Keywords

• Cuidados biomédicos
• Cuidados populares
• Parteras tradicionales
• Salud intercultural
• Construcción cultural de la salud