INVESTIGADORES
LADIO Ana Haydee
artículos
Título:
What drives the use of natural ´ products for medicinal purposes in contexts of cultural pluralism?
Autor/es:
MEDEIROS, PATRICIA; ALBUQUERQUE, ULYSSES; OLIVEIRA ABREU, DIEGO; DA SILVA, TALINE; SOARES FERRERIA JUNIOR, WHASINGTON; ALVES, MARCELO; LADIO, A H
Revista:
European Journal of Integrative Medicine
Editorial:
Elservier
Referencias:
Año: 2016 vol. 3 p. 471 - 477
Resumen:
Introduction: What are the drivers of health seeking behaviors in a culturally diverse scenario? A contextof medical and cultural pluralism with native and migrant people in NE Brazil was chosen to study the useof complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and official medicine (OM) products and their drivers.Methods: A one-year therapeutic recall was used to obtain information on individual health problems,products to treat their problems and access to health services. A generalized linear model (GLM (binomialerrors) was employed to indicate the variables that better explained therapeutic choices.Results: Most people use both CAM and OM products and most illnesses are treated by both systems. TheGLM indicated that women, migrants and people that turns to primary health-care services (PHCs) in alower extent are more likely to exclusively chose CAM products and are also more likely to prioritizethem. Frequentation of the local health center also leads to a proportionally higher use of CAM productsthan the frequentation of other PHCs from the surroundings.Conclusions: Women, migrants and people that do not frequent PHCs are the main supporters of CAMproducts. In the case of migrant people, their high adhesion to CAM products (especially medicinalplants) can turn them into new depositors of local (traditional) knowledge, although this knowledge willnot be dissoluble from other types of medicinal plant knowledge.