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Advancing brain health equity with Indigenous peoples: A critical imperative

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Indigenous communities hold rich knowledges, cultural practices, and kinship networks that sustain cognitive resilience and nurture brain health across the life course. Yet these enduring strengths are often obscured by biomedical models that overlook the structural determinants of health—including the cumulative effects of colonization ...
Antonia J. Clarke   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cuidado de la madre andina al lactante menor desde una perspectiva intercultural, 2017 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Esta investigación cualitativa con diseño etnográfico tuvo como objetivos describir y comprender el cuidado de la madre andina al lactante menor desde una perspectiva intercultural.
Bustamante Llatas, Jessica Paola   +1 more
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Functional ability in cognitive complaints: The role of neuropsychiatric and cognitive factors in community‐dwelling older adults

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia: Behavior &Socioeconomics of Aging, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract INTROCUTION The relationship between functional ability and neuropsychiatric or cognitive factors in older adults with cognitive complaints (CCs) remains unexplored in Latin America. METHODS Two hundred ninety community‐dwelling older adults with CCs were recruited.
Gonzalo Forno   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health conditions of migrant children and adolescents from Latin America and Caribe: A narrative review

open access: yesMedwave
The presence of children and adolescents in migratory flows is growing in Latin America and the Caribbean. Little is known about migration's effects on these groups' health. This article aims to investigate the evidence available on the access and use of
Alejandra Carreño Calderon   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Políticas de salud basadas en el concepto de interculturalidad. Los centros de salud intercultural en el altiplano boliviano. En: Avá, n° 14 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Actualmente en Bolivia, uno de los mayores problemas en el ámbito de la salud es la incorporación del concepto de cultura a las políticas sanitarias, hecho que hizo que se crearan centros de salud denominados “interculturales”, así como el Modelo de ...
Ramírez Hita, Susana
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Enhancing nursing care through technology and standardized nursing language: The TEC‐MED multilingual platform

open access: yesInternational Journal of Nursing Knowledge, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 421-429, October 2025.
Abstract Purpose This study describes the design, integration, and semantic interoperability process of a minimum data set using standardized nursing language in the caring module of the TEC‐MED care platform. Methods The caring module was developed in three phases (2020–2022): platform concept, functional design and construction, and testing and ...
Ana‐María Porcel Gálvez   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a Holistic, Intercultural, and Polyphonic Perspective on Health Care: A Brief Prologue to the Paper Titled “Understanding the Personalistic Aspects of Jola Ethnomedicine.” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
As a prologue to the paper titled “Understanding the Personalistic Aspects of Jola Ethnomedicine,” the present essay provides a brief anthropologico-philosophical reflection, starting with classic Roman philosopher Seneca and his dictum that “each ...
Baptista, Fernando Paulo
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La política pública de salud a nivel local. Análisis de la transformación del Centro de Salud Familiar Isabel Jiménez Riquelme de Tirúa, Biobío, Chile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper analyzes the transformation process of the Isabel Jiménez Riquelme Family Health Centre, located in Chile's VIII region. Through interviews of users and officials, the implementation of public health policies in the town of Tirúa during the ...
Sepúlveda Alecoi, Ninette
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Migrant Farmworkers' Acceptability of Health Services in Spain: Barriers and Facilitators Identified by Professionals

open access: yesHealth Expectations, Volume 28, Issue 1, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Seasonal migrant farmworkers (SMF) make up a significant part of Spain's agricultural labour force. Due to precarious labour conditions, housing insecurity and factors related to migration, SMF are at risk of specific health issues and occupational accidents.
Lena van Selm   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpreters and cultural mediators – different but complementary roles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article considers the roles of medical interpreters and cultural mediators and proposes that the two should be seen as separate. In the last six years cultural mediators have been trained in Ireland not to be interpreters but to help immigrants from
Martín, Mayte, Phelan, Mary
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