Abstract
To explore the boundaries and agents which make up women's knowledge about health care. A qualitative study was carried out in 4 regions in Mexico. Forty middle-aged women (between 35 and 65 years old) were interviewed and their responses analyzed. The findings of this study point out to the relationship of women and their different social interactions with their health care practice. Among these interactions are: the contact with health services (which shapes the way women take care of their own health and their family); mass media (particularly television); use of medicines; traditional healers; knowledge acquired from their grandparents, mothers, and peers; and women's own experience while taking care of their family. Health care at home setting is a mixture of traditional healing practices and the conventional medical practices disseminated among the population. The different social interactions in which women are involved make up the way Mexican women take care of their own health and their family.
Highlights
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Health care at home setting is a mixture of traditional healing practices and the conventional medical practices disseminated among the population
The different social interactions in which women are involved make up the way Mexican women take care of their own health and their family
Summary
En el cuidado que las mujeres brindan en el hogar se refleja que sus conocimientos son resultados de procesos sociales, consecuencia de la interacción que establecen con ámbitos de socialización como son los servicios de salud del modelo dominante de atención a la salud, la transmisión de conocimientos del modelo dominado, medicina tradicional, y de nuevas experiencias adquirida a través de sus relaciones con mujeres y de su propia experiencia adquirida en especial en el ámbito doméstico.
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