Interactions between global processes and local health problems. A human ecology approach to health among indigenous groups in the Amazon

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Maj-lis Follér¹ 

[1] ,Iberoamerican Institute Göteborg UniversityGöteborg,Sweden

关键词: Human Ecology;    Amazonian Ecosystem;    South American Indians;    Health;    Ecologia Humana;    Ecossistema Amazônico;    Índios Sul-Americanos;    Saúde;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-311X2001000700020

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This article deals with methodological issues and how to link global processes - social and ecological - with environmental changes and human health in local communities. The discussion concerns how interdisciplinary approaches can help us find tools to develop new knowledge. Scientific knowledge and local knowledge are not seen as opposite epistemological forms, but as socially and culturally constructed. Power and social legitimacy have to be included when analyzing how to deal with the interaction between global processes and local environmental change and the health/disease interface.

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