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Can Andean medicine coexist with biomedical healthcare? A comparison of two rural communities in Peru and Bolivia
BACKGROUND: It is commonly assumed that indigenous medical systems remain strong in developing countries because biomedicine is physically inaccessible or financially not affordable. This paper compares the health-seeking behavior of households from rural Andean communities at a Peruvian and a Boliv...
Autores principales: | Mathez-Stiefel, Sarah-Lan, Vandebroek, Ina, Rist, Stephan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22827917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-8-26 |
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