2009
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-42302009000300022
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Medicina complementar e alternativa: utilização pela comunidade de Montes Claros, Minas Gerais

Abstract: Complementary and alternative medicine is used by a significant number of those interviewed. Gender, religion, marital status, income and education were positively associated with utilization of complementary and alternative medicine. Access of those with less income and education could increase the utilization of the options that involve expenses.

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“…As PIC são estratégias de cuidado que estimulam a percepção ampliada do processo saúde-doença e que buscam a interação entre natureza, homem e sociedade, e já vem sendo discutida e estudada sua inserção nos diversos níveis de complexidade dos sistemas de saúde (21)(22)(23) .…”
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“…As PIC são estratégias de cuidado que estimulam a percepção ampliada do processo saúde-doença e que buscam a interação entre natureza, homem e sociedade, e já vem sendo discutida e estudada sua inserção nos diversos níveis de complexidade dos sistemas de saúde (21)(22)(23) .…”
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“…This is an ancient practice, originated from the mixture of cultures and ethnicities (Indians, European and black colonizers) 4 , which emerged amid popular Catholicism. Mostly practiced by women and transmitted from generation to generation or received as a “divine gift”, it is characterized by its financial gratuitousness 5 , and it is used to treat illnesses, spiritual and emotional problems 6 , 7 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) has encouraged countries to incorporate traditional medicine (TM), particularly in primary care, to increase the access of health agents to populations with cultural differences 3 - 4 . TM involves several social care systems within the field of medicine; in the broad sense, these health practices are established holistically as socially coordinated responses to human diseases 3 , 5 . For these reasons, the comprehensiveness of care of indigenous populations involves a dimension of interculturalism that brings with it the idea of cultural diversity and the relationships between different cultures or, more specifically, between individuals belonging to different cultures 6 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%