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Traditional Medicine in Ethnic Diversities
In this section, you will find links to different academic institutions, research groups, collaboration networks, associations and international organizations, which include in their agenda and objectives intercultural health and traditional medicines. 7.1 Groups, Research Centers, and Observatories in Traditional Indigenous, African American, and Ethnic Diversity Medicines Master in Intercultural Health (University of the Autonomous Regions […]
In this section, you can access the different strategies, policies and spaces created by PAHO / WHO for the protection of indigenous peoples and diverse ethnic groups, the maintenance of their health, and the promotion of traditional medicines. 6.1 WHO Strategy on Traditional Medicine 2014-2023: Strategy published in 2013, updating the WHO Strategy on Traditional […]
Many of the knowledge of biomedicine (medicines, vaccines and bioresources) are based on natural resources that at the same time are intimately connected with traditional knowledge and traditional medicine. This knowledge, in turn, has social, cultural and scientific value and is important for many indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as for genetic resources […]
The knowledge associated with traditional medicine has been developed for millennia and is a fundamental aspect of the culture of each people and especially of the indigenous peoples, African-Americans and the different ethnic diversity of the continent. This knowledge has a wide range of manifestations and practical uses which results, for example, in the knowledge […]
At the end of the 1970s, the PAHO proposed understanding traditional medicine as: “the set of all theoretical and practical knowledge, explainable or not, used for diagnosis, prevention and suppression of physical, mental or social disorders, based exclusively on the experience and observation, and transmitted verbally or written from one generation to another. It can […]
Health understood as a process: health – disease - medical attention – care, is totally interdependent of social, cultural, economic, political, religious and environmental processes. Indigenous and ethnic communities are not alien to these processes and have created their own medical and therapeutic systems that respond to their history, context, region and way of seeing […]
The Region of the Americas is characterized by being multi-ethnic and multicultural. Indigenous peoples (who receive different denominations or conceptualizations according to the countries), Afro-descendants, Romani and members of other ethnic groups coexist in the Region of the Americas. Such diversity implies the recognition of different realities and needs among the countries of the Region, […]