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Five hundred years of medicine gone to waste”? Negotiating the implementation of an intercultural health policy in the Ecuadorian Andes

Bibliographic Data

ID15375684
AuthorsAna Llamas (0000-0002-9425-8226, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, corresponding author), Susannah Mayhew, Susannah H Mayhew (0000-0002-2433-3809, Faculty of Public Health)
Year2018
Volume18
Issue1
Pages686-686
Publication date2018-06-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBMC Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1471-2458 • E-ISSN: 1471-2458
PublisherBioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1186/s12889-018-5601-8
PMID29866186
OpenAlexW2807352992
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited31

Although contentious, intercultural health policies such as the VB policy have the potential to improve maternity services and access for indigenous women. Evidence-base medicine should be used as a lever to facilitate the dialogue between healthcare workers and TBAs and to promote best practice and patient safety. Actors' values influenced policy implementation; policy implementation resulted from an ongoing negotiation between healthcare workers and managers

Biostatistics · Environmental health · Family medicine · Negotiation · Pathology · Public health · Social science · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Global Maternal and Child Health · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Medicine · Nursing · Epidemiology

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Unique citing works8
Citations per year1,33
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 8

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