A Collective Response to the Health Sector Reform in Guatemala
Publication Date
1-15-2009
Document Type
Book Chapter
Organizational Units
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Anthropology
Keywords
Public health practice, Instancia Nacional de Salud, Health services, Health care, Alternative medicine, Mayan medicine
Abstract
This chapter describes individual experiences during the initial years of the health-sector reform in Guatemala and their collective participation in a coalition of grassroots organizations called the Instancia Nacional de Salud. Instancia Nacional de Salud is a coalition of community-based organizations that responded to the Guatemalan government's top-down health care reform by creating an alternative program that integrated Mayan medicine into a comprehensive primary health-care structure.
Copyright Date
1-15-2009
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All Rights Reserved.
Rights Holder
Oxford University Press, Inc.
Provenance
Received from author
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
Extent
23 pgs
Publication Statement
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Publication Title
The Practice of International Health: A Case-Based Orientation
First Page
177
Last Page
199
Recommended Citation
Cerón, A., & Fort, M. P. (2009). A Collective response to the health sector reform in Guatemala. In Daniel Perlman & Ananya Roy (Ede.), The practice of international health: A case-based orientation. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310276.003.09
ISBN
9780199865369