Health in an Intercultural Context Sample Clauses

Health in an Intercultural Context. Health care for indigenous peoples has two components: access to health care services, and the respect for their traditional medicine and medical practices. Improving the number and the quality of medical resources in rural areas is certainly necessary. However, providing more health centers and medical staff will not resolve all problems. In addition to access to medical resources, cultural factors also play a key role in improving the health care for indigenous patients. Graciela Freyermuth comments how in the Central Highlands of Chiapas women who have complications during pregnancy or delivery do not consider going to the existing health center as an option, often resulting in the death of the mother (González Montes, 2003: 9). Why not go to a doctor when one is available? Indigenous women can feel uncomfortable visiting a ‘Western’ allopath doctor. There are several factors that can generate this aversion towards these ‘modern’ doctors. First, indigenous women not only enter the unfamiliar environment of the health center, they often cannot directly communicate with the doctor and the nurses as they do not always speak Spanish, the language of the medical staff. The doctor is most often not from the same region as his patients, he is not indigenous, he is not familiar with the local culture, and cannot speak the local indigenous language. Furthermore, even if the patients speak Spanish, the medical vocabulary of the doctor will scare people with a limited level of education. In addition, due to years of discrimination and oppression, many indigenous persons feel inferior to the mestizo doctor, afraid to ask anything, and feeling they have to accept everything the doctor says. The doctor may reinforce this feeling by treating his indigenous patients as ignorant and dumb, a behavior that is not uncommon in Mexico. Given the inequality in the relation and communication, and the experience of arrogant, condescending, or offensive attitudes, not in accordance with cultural traditional values, another important issue for indigenous women is chastity – interpreted by the dominant party as shame. Women can in the first place feel too uncomfortable to ask the strange doctor – who is an outsider, coming from a hostile dominant group – a question about intimate issues (Cosminsky, 2006: 27), let alone allowing him to have any physical contact. Particularly gynecological examinations are a difficult matter as the women have to undress, and be examined in their mos...
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