Indigenous communities in Latin America and elsewhere have complex bodies of
knowledge, but Western health services generally approach them as vulnerable people in …

Objectives Collate published evidence of factors that affect maternal health in Indigenous
communities and contextualise the findings with stakeholder perspectives in the Mexican …

A recurring issue in intercultural research is whose knowledge informs conceptualization
and design of projects or interventions. Fuzzy cognitive mapping uses arrows and weights to …

Objectives Examine factors associated with use of traditional medicine during childbirth and
in management of childhood diarrhoea. Design Cross-sectional cluster survey, household …

Introduction Cultural safety, interculturality and antiracism are crucial concepts in addressing
health disparities of minority and diverse groups. Measuring them is challenging, however …

Methods We conducted a qualitative descriptive study as part of a larger participatory
research effort to develop a medical education curriculum on cultural safety. Four final-year …

Background: Although traditional and cultural health practices are widely used in Colombia,
physicians are not trained to address intercultural tensions that arise in clinical practice …

Background Available research on the contribution of traditional midwifery to safe
motherhood focuses on retraining and redefining traditional midwives, assuming cultural …

This chapter presents the results of a study on the ethnonutrition of the Ingano people of the
Colombian Amazon. The study was carried out by Colombian, American and Canadian …

Cultural safety in medical training encourages practitioners, in a culturally congruent way, to
acknowledge the validity of their patients' worldviews. Lack of cultural safety is linked to …