Towards an indigenous definition of health: an explorative study to understand the indigenous Ecuadorian people's health and illness concepts.
Estefanía Bautista-ValarezoVíctor DuqueAdriana Elizabeth Verdugo SánchezViviana Dávalos-BatallasNele R M MichelsKristin HendrickxVeronique VerhoevenPublished in: International journal for equity in health (2020)
Indigenous healers in Southern Ecuador have views on health and illness that differ from the Western biomedical model of care. These different views must be recognized and valued in order to build an intercultural (health) system that empowers both ancestral and modern medical knowledge and healing.