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| Author(s): |
Aridiane Alves Ribeiro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Enfermagem (EE/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-12-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Lidia Aparecida Rossi;
Cássia Irene Spinelli Arantes;
Marcela Jussara Miwa;
Lucila Castanheira Nascimento;
Marcia Maria Fontao Zago
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| Advisor: | Lidia Aparecida Rossi |
| Abstract | |
This study aimed to describe the social and political context in which intercultural care is established and experienced by individuals in the realm of intermedicality of an indigenous village, based on the perspective of indigenous patients and Ameridians and non-indigenous health-care providers. The theoretical framework that based data collection and interpretation included: Ethnography, Interpretative Anthropology, Explanatory Model and Cultural Safety. Fieldwork was initiated in Terra Indígena Buriti located in Sidrolândia and Dois Irmãos do Buriti municipalities, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The approval to develop the research was obtained from the National Ethics Committee for Research. Participant observation was performed in the health units and in the health office located in Sidrolândia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 indigenous patients using the service, 12 Terena health workers and six non-indigenous health workers. Thematic analysis was simultaneous to data collection and based on Dialectic Hermeneutics. Two themes emerged: 1) \"Disease is worse than death: explanations about the process of becoming ill\" shows how the participants interpreted the health-disease continuum. The Terena people consider health to be a key aspect of life. The process of becoming ill involves lack or decreased physical, psychological and spiritual energy to perform daily tasks. Spirituality, hygiene, food and the issue of land ownership impact the process of becoming ill among the Terena people. 2) \"Intermedicality in the Terena care system\" portrays the meanings assigned by the participants to the coexistence and intercommunication (intermedicality) between Terena health care forms: Terena medicine, spirituality, lifestyle and the official health care system. The Terena care system reveals an indigenization process of healthcare services. The Terena medicine is based on two pillars: one focused on traditional knowledge, which includes the use of herbs, midwives and the practice of puling of legs and arms; and another on mystical and supernatural aspects: prayers and shamanism. Highlight that the number of shamans has decreased. Spirituality as a therapeutic option is represented by faith in God, concretized by prayers. The Terena lifestyle is mainly based on two aspects: centered on the family, and individual and environmental hygiene. The official healthcare service is sought by the Terena people according to the services provided by the healthcare facilities and to their particular needs, i.e. cases the Terena people \"cannot solve\". In this sphere, care consultations are based on bonds, trust, dialogue and the practice of culturally sensitive professionals. Disagreements regarding treatments are favored by priorities established by goals, the complaint-procedure model (as opposed to preventive practices), and poor infrastructure. The aspects identified in the reports of the participants concerning the Terena care system are traversed by the historicity of the Terena people, the issue of land ownership, medicalization of the society, hygienism, integration among body, cosmos and earth, spirituality with religious diversity, family-centered culture, healthcare programmatic activities in primary care, biomedicine, poor transportation and low problem-solving capacity. Diabetes and hypertension were diseases recorded by the health office and signified by the participants as the population\'s main diseases. Hybrid medicines coexist in all the Terena care spheres. Intermedicality has to take place within the official healthcare service without however overlapping Terena wisdom with medical knowledge and/or institutional rationale (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/03773-8 - The care within an intermedicality space of an indigenous village |
| Grantee: | Aridiane Alves Ribeiro |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |