Intercultural approach to health: the best way for different cultures that live in Colombian territory

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to reflect on how health can be addressed in indigenous peoples of Colombia, based on the experience of health education that the Piraguas group of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana has had with the community Embera indigenous. This is a group of social projection that seeks to impact the health of the most vulnerable communities in the country, through a training strategy in healthy habits, fostering a dialogue of knowledge between ancestral medicine and modern medicine, so that the communities They can be participants in their self-care based on the tools that are most accessible to them. This article provides extensive information on the social and cultural context of the Emberá community and the methods by which an intercultural approach to health can be carried out in this population, achieving a symmetrical interaction of knowledge and traditions under respect in search of complementarity.