Tracing Home-Based Health Care Change in an Andean Indian Community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2478104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruthbeth Finerman (University of Memphis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 162-174 |
| Publication date | 1989-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/maq.1989.3.2.02a00040 |
| OpenAlex | W2044868899 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 39 |
Qualitative and quantitative data collected over a period of 11 years indicate that Saraguro Indians in the southern Ecuadorian highlands rely almost exclusively on mothers as family healers despite access to a range of specialized traditional and biomedical services. However, the home-based health care system has begun to change in recent years as mothers increasingly integrate selected features of biomedicine into family curing. I suggest that the tenacity of home-based therapy is a product of its receptivity to innovations that complement core health care values
Biomedicine · Contact tracing · Economic growth · Ethnology · Family medicine · Geography · Health care · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Medicine · Nursing · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Gerontology
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Part five
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 0.42 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2018 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |