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Revista Ciencias de la Salud
Print version ISSN 1692-7273On-line version ISSN 2145-4507
Abstract
ORTIZ, ANT., Sara. Aspects of Sexual and Reproductive Health of Teen Women of the Three Communities of the Indigenous Reserve of San Lorenzo, Caldas: Domestic Work, Traditional Midwifery and Organizational Processes of Indigenous Women. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2019, vol.17, n.spe, pp.145-162. ISSN 1692-7273. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/revsalud/a.8126.
Introduction:
The objective is to comprehend the sexual and reproductive health of teen women of the communities of San José, Tunzará and Veneros in the Indigenous Reserve of San Lorenzo using a perspective that interrelates a description of the individual experiences and perceptions of the reproductive behavior principally with the menarche, a characterization of the access to medical systems, and an analysis of sexual and reproductive health based on structural and group conditions like the indigenous women's options of work.
Development:
For it, researchers chose the qualitative paradigm, more specifically the ethnographic description and interpretation with a quantitative component, and divided the fieldwork into four phases with a total of three months and two weeks, in which they conducted 21 open interviews, 30 semi-structured interviews, 23 reproductive stories, and 3 group discussions.
Conclusions:
This study gives evidence of how sexual and reproductive health of indigenous teen requires a comprehension based on a contextualization and an interrelation of the individual, group and structural level that influence and affect indigenous women to adequate an intercultural health system.
Keywords : Sexual and reproductive health; indigenous women; emberá chami; Resguardo Indígena San Lorenzo; health services.