scholarly journals ANTIPARASITIC PLANTS USED BY THE KANTARURÉ-BATIDA INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY (NE-BRAZIL): ETHNOBOTANY AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE-EROSION RISKS

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
DEYVISON RHUAN VASCO-DOS-SANTOS ◽  
JÉSSICA VIEIRA DOS SANTOS ◽  
WBANEIDE MARTINS DE ANDRADE ◽  
THAYSE MACEDO DOS SANTOS-LIMA ◽  
LIDIANE NUNES LIMA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Botanical Knowledge ◽  
Intestinal Parasitosis ◽  
Mortality Causes

Abstract Indigenous people have an intrinsic relationship with the flora used in healing systems. However, data about plants used to treat intestinal parasitosis, which are one of the main morbidity and mortality causes among indigenous peoples, remain scarce. Thus, the aim of the current study is to survey antiparasitic plants used by the Kantaruré-Batida community and to investigate whether their ethno-medico-botanical knowledge is spread. Therefore, it adopted interviews and free lists. Thirty-one (31) indigenous individuals were interviewed and they mentioned 21 plant species. Most respondents (91%) acquired the traditional knowledge through hereditary transmission and spread it (77%) in the same way. Only 35% of the respondents adopt medicinal plants as the first cure resource, besides associating the decrease of such use to their proximity to health care services. Thus, it is worth taking actions to help preserving the local knowledge and biodiversity in order to avoid the loss of indigenous therapeutic treatments.

scholarly journals Indigenous nurses: participation of nursing technicians and auxiliary in indigenous health care services

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliana Elisabeth Diehl ◽  
Helga Bruxel Carvalho Follmann
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Training Courses

The aim of this study was to analyze the participation of Indigenous nursing technicians and aides in Indigenous health care services offered in the Xapecó Reserve, Santa Catarina, Brazil, focusing on the training and activities executed. Data collection (participant observation and interviews) and analysis were based on the ethnographic method. Sixteen key informants were interviewed, including nursing technicians and aides, training instructors, staff nurses and health service users. The training courses contained little or no emphasis on local knowledge and health practices. Other than the role of facilitator and mediator between the health team and community, the activities performed by the Indigenous nursing technicians and aides differed little from those of non-Indigenous people in the same categories. In this context, both the training of these workers and the activities executed by them reinforce the clinical curative model, which hinders articulation with local knowledge and Indigenous health practices, a principle of the National Policy of Health Care for Indigenous People.

scholarly journals Colonial Legacies and Collaborative Action: Improving Indigenous Peoples’ Health Care in Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloy Wylie ◽  
Stephanie McConkey ◽  
Ann Marie Corrado
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care System

Indigenous people experience significant health disparities compared to non-Indigenous people, which are exacerbated by less accessible and poorer quality health care services. This research aimed to understand the specific barriers to health care that Indigenous patients and their families face, as well as to explore promising practices and strategies for improving the responsiveness of health services to the needs of Indigenous people. Through qualitative interviews with Indigenous and non-Indigenous health care and social services providers, we identified a range of challenges and successful approaches, and developed recommendations for improving policy and practice to address the gaps in culturally safe health care services. Our study shows that many of the barriers Indigenous people face when accessing health care are rooted in the broader social determinants of health, such as poverty, racism, housing, and education. These are complex problems that are outside of the traditional scope of health care practice. However, this study has also demonstrated that many barriers to equitable care actually stem from within the health care system itself. We found that health care gaps were often attributable to poorly funded on-reserve health care services and culturally unsafe off-reserve services.  Attitudes and practices among those working in health care and gaps in coordination between mainstream and Indigenous services are challenges related to the way the health care system operates. Solutions are needed that address these issues. Given the multifaceted nature of access barriers, strategies to improve health services for Indigenous people and communities require a comprehensive and systemic approach.  

Endangered Medicinal Plants Used in Traditional Herbal Medicines in The South-East Rajasthan (Hadoti Region)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1808-1817
Author(s):  
Aparna Pareek ◽  
Shalini Maheshwari
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Herbal Medicines ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Botanical Knowledge ◽  
Status Effect

The present study was carried out to gather information about Ethno-botanical knowledge of tribal people and ethnic races those are residing in forests of south-east Rajasthan since ages. A large number of wild and cultivated plants are being used by them to treat various ailments due to limited access to modern health care services. The study was carried out in an unexplored remote tribal area of South east region of Rajasthan to investigate and document the existing ethno-medicinal knowledge on local flora which is rich and diversified in important medicinal plants.. The ethno-medicinal knowledge in the study area is gradually heading towards extinction because the old age community members being the main bearer of this knowledge are passing away and younger generation is not interested to take it. Herbal practitioners in the area have sufficient traditional knowledge, but mostly, they are reluctant to disclose it to other community members. Hence, the current study was planned with the objectives to record the traditional knowledge of study area mainly pertaining to endangered Ethno-medicinal plants of the proposed area of study.  The study was conducted through direct interviews with 35 Herbal practitioners and 240 informants from the study area. Data was collected through semi-structured questionnaires from the community members and local herbal. We presented thirty most used species by ancestral healers of Hadoti to cure different ailments and their medicinal uses. This study also provide details regarding Habitat, Mode of transfer, Abundance Status, Effect and popularity and Cultivation practices (status of plant)of selected 30 plants.

scholarly journals Indigenous access barriers to health care services in London, Ontario

2017 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie McConkey
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cultural Safety ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Access Barriers ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Pain Medications

Introduction: Indigenous peoples in Canada suffer higher rates of health inequalities and encounter a number of health services access barriers when compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. Indigenous peoples experience social and economic challenges, cultural barriers, and discrimination when accessing mainstream health services. Methods: In London, Ontario, 21 interviews and 2 focus groups (n = 25) with service providers were completed, each session spanning approximately 1 to 1.5 hours. Interviews were voice recorded and transcribed verbatim. Themes were identified using NVIVO 10 software. Findings: Approximately 2 to 5% of clients are Indigenous in hospital-based services. There are a number of social factors that influence whether Indigenous peoples access health services. Indigenous peoples do not have access to adequate pain medications because physicians are reluctant to provide Indigenous patients with pain medications due to common perceptions of addiction. Indigenous peoples also have barriers accessing a family physician because physicians are reluctant to take on new patients with complex health needs. Conclusion: Systemic discrimination is still alive in the health care system; therefore, there is a need for cultural safety training among physicians to increase awareness of access barriersand challenges that many Indigenous patients face when seeking health care.

Race and gender as factors in access to health insurance and utilization of health care services

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana J. Ferradas ◽  
G. Nicole Rider ◽  
Johanna D. Williams ◽  
Brittany J. Dancy ◽  
Lauren R. Mcghee
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
And Gender
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