Health In The Guatemalan Highlands
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Health In The Guatemalan Highlands
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Author : Ulli Steltzer
language : en
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Release Date : 1983
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A New Dawn In Guatemala
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Author : Richard Luecke
language : en
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Release Date : 1993
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Health In The Highlands
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Author : David Carey
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-07-11
Health In The Highlands written by David Carey and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-11 with History categories.
"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"--
Guatemala
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language : en
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Release Date : 1987
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Guatemala
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Author : Peter Rohloff
language : en
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Release Date : 2015-03-03
Guatemala written by Peter Rohloff and has been published by Dartmouth College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-03 with Medical categories.
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.
Environmental Health And Traditional Fuel Use In Guatemala
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Author : Kulsum Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Environmental Health And Traditional Fuel Use In Guatemala written by Kulsum Ahmed and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Medical categories.
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.
Underbelly
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Author : Rachel Hall-Clifford
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-05-14
Underbelly written by Rachel Hall-Clifford and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-14 with Medical categories.
An unsettling exploration of the hidden power dynamics of global health, seen through the lens of childhood diarrhea and its treatment within the Guatemalan context. Deaths from childhood diarrhea seem preposterous in high-income countries. Yet, for children under five years old in the rest of the world, diarrhea is the third highest cause of mortality. Despite a glut of prevention and treatment programming spanning more than forty years, this least glamorous of global health ills remains a critical problem. In Underbelly, Rachel Hall-Clifford takes a hard look at the pathways of global health funding and development policies and the outcomes they deliver for recipient individuals and communities. Drawing on fifteen years of ethnographic research in highland Guatemala, Hall-Clifford focuses on the provision of primary health care services as a critical exemplar of how global health and development programs fall short. Guatemala has a fragmented health system, the author explains, that guarantees health as a human right but also suffers from systemic racism, inadequate health services and access to those services, community distrust from a legacy of harm and violence, and a demeaning paternalism. Bringing together the discourses of global health and medical anthropology, Underbelly explores the ways in which global health—its actors, structures, and systems—perpetuates the challenges it purports to fix: this is the underbelly. Hall-Clifford argues that global health programs, conceived in offices distant from the places in which they are delivered, often have unintended consequences and contribute to pluralistic and exclusionary health systems that mirror neoliberal economies. She argues that if we are to fix this entrenched crisis of health inequity, we must use the immense resources of global health to center local communities as drivers of change. With a foreword written by Waleska López Canu, an Indigenous Maya medical director, and an afterword by Arthur Kleinman, renowned expert in global health, this book underscores the importance of looking deeper into what seems on its surface incontrovertibly “good” to understand the more complex realities on the ground and in people’s lives.
Health In The Highlands
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Author : David Carey, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023
Health In The Highlands written by David Carey, Jr. and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Medical care categories.
"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"--
The Process Of Medical Change In A Highland Guatemalan Town
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Author : Clyde M. Woods
language : en
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Release Date : 1973
The Process Of Medical Change In A Highland Guatemalan Town written by Clyde M. Woods and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Medical categories.
The Weight Of Obesity
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Author : Emily Yates-Doerr
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2015-09-22
The Weight Of Obesity written by Emily Yates-Doerr and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-22 with Social Science categories.
A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America escalate, global health interventions increasingly emphasize nutrition, exercise, and weight loss—but much goes awry as ideas move from policy boardrooms and clinics into everyday life. Based on years of intensive fieldwork, The Weight of Obesity offers poignant stories of how obesity is lived and experienced by Guatemalans who have recently found their diets—and their bodies—radically transformed. Anthropologist Emily Yates-Doerr challenges the widespread view that health can be measured in calories and pounds, offering an innovative understanding of what it means to be healthy in postcolonial Latin America. Through vivid descriptions of how people reject global standards and embrace fatness as desirable, this book interferes with contemporary biomedicine, adding depth to how we theorize structural violence. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the politics of healthy eating.
