Intercultural Approaches for Public Health

The Initiative offers conceptual and empirical elements of social sciences to place health-disease processes in a complex sociocultural environment. It provides a varied vision of medicine and its history, considering different medical systems and going deeply into traditional Mapuche and Aymara medicine and its worldview.

Both tensions and exchanges between globalization processes and local identities are analyzed, along with the presentation of the intercultural approach as an analytical perspective and practical strategy in health systems.