Folk illnesses

Spanish translation: Creencias populares sobre salud

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English term or phrase:	Folk illnesses
Spanish translation:	Creencias populares sobre salud
Entered by:	Rosa Paredes

18:05 Aug 8, 2009

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English term or phrase: Folk illnesses

Folk illnesses are health beliefs and practices shaped by the cultural conventions of a specific group of people. Folk illnesses (sometimes also referred to as lay health beliefs) have specific causes, preventions, and cures based on wider theories of illness (e.g., humoral, Ayurvedic, biomedical), but may also include local health beliefs and values not related to the major theories of illness. Because folk illnesses and remedies are shaped by the way people in specific cultural groups think about the body in health and illness, common practices vary significantly from diagnoses and treatments of the modern Western medical community.

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Creencias populares sobre salud

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creencias de tipo folclórico o popular en la población de madres que se asiste en el Hospital Pereira Rossell en relaciónala enfermedad es un hecho real y ...
www.rmu.org.uy/revista/1990v1/art5.pdf -
... Creencias Populares. Enfermedades y Curas caseras por Julio Sofía. Sabido es que el saber popular no tiene, ni límites ni quien lo niegue, ...
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Creencias populares sobre salud

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folk illnesses enfermedades populares o folclóricas

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popular
= folkloristic, popular, demotic, folksy [folksier -comp., folksiest -sup.], homespun, folkloric, grassroots [grass-roots], high selling.

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folk illnesses

Creencias populares sobre salud

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Millones de gracias, Rosa!

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