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Health Care In Aymara Women In The North Of Chile, Rossana Testa Phd, Academic Director
Health Care In Aymara Women In The North Of Chile, Rossana Testa Phd, Academic Director
Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium
Background: In Chile the most important indigenous population lives in a determined territory, we found Mapuche people in the south and the Aymara people in the north of the country. The majority of the indigenous people live in the urban zones. However, the indigenous people that live at the rural areas are who conserve their traditional medicine practices.
The region of Arica and Parinacota is the northern region of Chile and has the largest concentration of the Aymara indigenous group in all of Chile.
At the rural areas are the women whom most attended at the public health system, especially …