Patient-centered boundary mechanisms to foster intercultural partnerships in health care: a case study in Guatemala

• Main Authors: Martin Hitziger (Author), Mónica Berger Gonzalez (Author), Eduardo Gharzouzi (Author), Daniela Ochaíta Santizo (Author), Regina Solis Miranda (Author), Andrea Isabel Aguilar Ferro (Author), Ana Vides-Porras (Author), Michael Heinrich (Author), Peter Edwards (Author), Pius Krütli (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Up to one half of the population in Africa, Asia and Latin America has little access to high-quality biomedical services and relies on traditional health systems. Medical pluralism is thus in many developing countries the rule rather than the exception, which is why the World Hea...