INTERCULTURALITY IN HEALTH: COMPETENCE IN HEALTH PRACTICES WITH INDIGENOUS POPULATION

Abstract

This article tries to discuss and to refect upon the way in which the immersed health system services in territories with high Mapuche presence are adapted to the cultural idiosyncrasy of this population, approaching which are the difficulties the services of health meet at the moment of exercising the health practice in multiethnic context, where the health is understood in an holistic way, leading necessarily to a different epidemiological vision, incorporating the categories and etiologies of disease from the the different population culture point of view.