Browsing by Author "Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo"

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Análisis de la Evolución histórica, Académica e Institucional de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca, desde 1916 hasta 1977
(2017) Larriva Rodríguez, Ana María; León Morocho, Angélica Mariela; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
Background: From 1812 the first attempts to create a university city appear, but it would not be until 1867 that the University Corporation of the Azuay is created, that begins its functions the 1 of January of 1868 in School Seminary and National, in 1916 moves to the building Next to the Hospital San Vicente de Paul and later to the Campus El Paraíso. Objective: To analyze the historical, academic and institutional evolution of the School of Medicine of the University of Cuenca between 1916 and 1977. Methods: This is a qualitative research with a historical narrative approach. Interviews were carried out on key figures, students and then teachers of the Faculty of Medicine. Recorded interviews were carried out, which were then transcribed in Word text, coded and processed in the AtlasTi program for qualitative research. In addition, primary sources were reviewed: files and minutes of the Faculty. For the triangulation interviewed a teacher retired ex-president of the Faculty that works in subjects of History of Medicine. Results: The analysis of the information was divided in three periods from its transfer to the banks of the river Tomebamba in 1916 to its current location in the El Paraíso campus in 1977, periods in which it is narrated: the national context, local, authorities, Aspects of medical education, pensum and its changes, physical spaces, students and aspects of their university life. Conclusions: In 1916, the Faculty of Medical Sciences began its activities in the premises located on Avenida 12 de Abril and Solano. In 1977, it moved to the El Paraiso campus, three important periods mark its History: the impact of the liberal revolution and the Julian movement (1916 - 1944), professional diversification and university building (1944 - 1970); And modernization and crisis in (1970 - 1977).
Análisis hermenéutico de los saberes andinos y salud en el Tambo provincia del Cañar, 2016
(2017) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Huiracocha Tutivén, María de Lourdes; Chilet Rosell, Elisa
ABSTRACT Background. Ancestral wisdom in health are not accept by the science, so run the risk of disappearing. Scientific Medicine coexists with Andean Ancestral Knowledge. Ancestral wisdom have their own Cosmovision, method and experiences that explain health-disease processes. The Tambo town is a county in Cañar province were works erudite people in Andean health traditions that is possible to research. Objective. To analyze, using hermeneutics, the conceptual elements of the Andean worldview expressed in the treatment of Andean pathologies. Material and methods. Qualitative research with an interpretive and hermeneutic focus, analyze the Andean health traditions present in relate of men and women of wisdom. Works in four wise interviews, four patients, one life history and data triangulation with experts. A priori categories were classified into: principles and paradigms, eight Andean pathologies, four diagnosis, two treatment, and two emergent categories were presented: conditions of the healer and coexistence of Andean knowledge with Western medicine. The interviews were write in word text and then codified and processed in the Atlas.ti informatics software. Results. El Tambo wisdoms related to the principles and paradigms of the Andean worldview. The health-disease process is conceived from the paradigm of balance, and is manifested throughout the process: from the conception of pathologies, diagnosis, and treatment with plants and traditional cleanings; in an open system that allows coexistence with Western Medicine
Características de la acupuntura estandarizada como tratamiento de lumbalgía crónica en Cuenca 2015
(2016) Jaramillo Monge, Kadir Paúl; Marquez Maldonado, Carol Estefanía; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Sacoto Molina, Adrian Marcelo
Background. - Chronic low back pain is a common cause of medical consultation and absenteeism; there are several pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures to relieve it, where acupuncture, art belonging to Chinese medicine, is a treatment option for improving pain. Objective. - To determine the characteristics of standardized acupuncture as a treatment for chronic low back pain in Cuenca. Methodology. - A descriptive study was conducted in an unknown population of patients with chronic back pain who were treated with standardized acupuncture. The sample was not probabilistic for convenience. Data were collected using a validated and analyzed in SPSS software v22.0 form. Pain intensity was assessed by visual analogue scale (VAS) and functional limitation by the Oswestry disability index (ODI). Results. – In total, 64 patients participated in this study. The age ranged between 20 and 82 years. 62.5% were women, 95.31% live in urban areas, 59.3% attended by postural causes. Patients were treated with acupuncture standardized reduced EVA (7.41 versus 2.77 in 3 months) comparing the before and after treatment. 54.7% reduction was obtained using the functional limitation ODI before and after treatment. There were statistically significant difference between patients who underwent the treatment and reduction of back pain disability by McNemar test (p <0.0001). Conclusions. - Standardized acupuncture is a valid treatment to relieve chronic back pain.
Ciencia y Sabiduria
(2019) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
Ciencia, tecnología y desarrollo en el Azuay desde una perspectiva histórica (siglos XIX y XX)
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2014) Cárdenas Reyes, María Cristina; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Regalado Loaiza, Juan Fernando; Torres León, Leonardo
Cosmovisión andina relacionada al uso de plantas medicinales, Sayausí – Cuenca 2016
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2018-06) Oñate Álvarez, Pedro Andrés; Ordóñez Vélez, Christian Giovanny; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Angulo Rosero, Aydeé Narcisa
Despite the urbanization of the last 20 years, Sayausí still maintains ancestral Andean customs such as the use of medicinal plants, a preventive and therapeutic resource in health. Objetive: To determinate the principles of the Andean worldview and relate them to the management of medicinal plants in Sayausí. Method: It is a qualitative descriptive study of a narrative type with an intercultural approach. The use of medical plants was investigated under the postulates of the Andean worldwide. Five wise men of the ancestral medicine of the Sayausí parish were interviewed during the months of July and August in 2015. The theoretical basis for the analysis of the data: the narrative design, generating concepts and interpretations from the information obtained from the wise men. The techniques used were interviews. The Instruments were forms with open questions, recordings and photographs. The interviews were written using citations, codes and memos, which were processed with the Atlas program. The main categories were grouped according to taxonomies; the information was complemented with tables and figures. Results: The Andean sages explained in their own words the principles: relationality, reciprocity, correspondence, and complementarity. In its rationality, everything worked as a holistic process, involving all the components of the universe. To heal with plants was a true ritual, including principles, plants, body and spirit. The plants had three main functions: healing, feeding and a sacred element. The ways to classify the plants were: gender, shape, color, and thermal state. The herb harvest, preparation and administration were the three stages of the healing process Conclusions: The Andean sages from Sayausí parish applied the principles of the Andean worldview both in practicing healing with medicinal plants and activities of their daily lives.
Cosmovisión Andina: categorías y principios
(2019) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
Manuscrito que trabaja desde la cosmovisión andina los principios de: relacionalidad, correspondencia, complementariedad, reciprocidad y ciclocidad; así como el paradigma de Pachamama
Desarrollo de la Medicina Social en la escuela de medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca
(2016) Parra Ordoñez, Diana Marcela; Peralta Bravo, Christian Andrés; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Mosquera Vallejo, Lorena Elizabeth
BACKGROUND: The School of Medicine is one of the first at the University of Cuenca to be founded; however the development of social medicine has been gradually gaining momentum since the sixties. It is a little investigated and reported it. The teaching of social medicine is related to the changes made in the practice of medicine with the city and the arrival of foreign-trained teachers. They taught Hygiene and Public Health. Social Medicine starts from a charity whose aim was the good death of people and not focus on healing; then develop the privatization of health services, state intervention and municipalities also occurs in the health and social area, there is then the disappearance of the Charitable Medicine by religious and medical faculty, to emerge a trend towards a health system based on the concept of health as a commodity exists Later a primary focus in medicine covering prevention, promotion and development of primary health care.
Educación médica durante la pandemia
(2021) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
Efecto de la acupuntura sobre la calidad de vida en pacientes con rinitis alérgica. Centro de Acupuntura Universidad de Cuenca. 2018
(2018) Benalcázar Rodríguez, Silvana Maritza; Contreras Sinchi, Mónica Alexandra; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
Background: Allergic rhinitis is a chronic pathology that affects the physical, emotional and social environment of patients. Acupuncture is an alternative therapy to control your symptoms. Overall objective: to determine the effect of Acupuncture on the quality of life in patients with allergic rhinitis in the Acupuncture Center of the University of Cuenca. 2018. Methodology: quantitative, prospective study. 90 people participated in which 3 applications of the Mini Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (RQLQ) were performed, for the measurement of the quality of life after the three sessions of acupuncture. SPSS 15 MB was used to process the information. The information was presented in personalized tables. The bioethical foundations were applied for research with human beings. Results: the mean age was 34.62 years with SD ± 13.94, with predominance of women with 65.6%, urban residence with 74.4%. 78.9% had a family history of allergy. Nasal congestion (93.3%) was the most frequent symptom of allergic rhinitis. There was a statistically significant relationship between acupuncture therapy and quality of life in relation to the first (Wilcoxon p = 0.00) and second measurement (Student's T p = 0.00, 95% CI: -1.73 and -1.36) of the mini RQLQ questionnaire after acupuncture therapy. Conclusion: Acupuncture led to statistically significant improvements in the quality of life of patients with Allergic Rhinitis.
El lenguaje de la medicina China y el comportamiento
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2010) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
En tiempos de coronavirus
(2020) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
Ensayo clínico no aleatorizado del efecto de la acupuntura sobre la calidad de vida en pacientes con rinitis alérgica. Centro de Acupuntura - Universidad de Cuenca. 2018
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2018-12) Contreras Sinchi, Mónica Alexandra; Benalcázar Rodríguez, Silvana Maritza; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
Background: Allergic rhinitis is a chronic pathology that affects the physical, emotional and social environment of patients. Acupuncture is an alternative therapy to control your symptoms and improve patient’s quality of life. Objetive: To determine the effect of Acupuncture on the quality of life in patients with allergic rhinitis in the Acupuncture Center of the University of Cuenca. 2018 Method: It is a quasi-experimental study. About 90 people participated in which 3 applications of the Mini Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (RQLQ) were performed, for the measurement of the quality of life after the three sessions of acupuncture. SPSS 15 MB was used to process the information. The bioethical foundations were applied for research with human beings. Results: The mean age was 34.62 years with SD ± 13.94, with predominance of women with 65.6%, urban residence with 74.4%. 78.9% had a family history of allergy. Nasal congestion (93.3%) was the most frequent symptom of allergic rhinitis. There was a statistically significant relationship between acupuncture therapy and quality of life in relation to the first (Wilcoxon p = 0.00) and second measurement (Student's T p = 0.00, 95% CI: -1.73 and -1.36) of the mini RQLQ questionnaire after acupuncture therapy. Conclusions: Acupuncture led to improvement quality of life in patients with Allergic Rhinitis.
Estudio cualitativo sobre el malestar: perspectivas de la medicina tradicional en Cuenca, El Tambo y Saraguro - Ecuador
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2017-12) Angulo Rosero, Aydeé Narcisa; Brito Roby, Liliana Alexandra; Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Arévalo Peláez, Carlos Eduardo; Rojas Reyes, Rosendo Iván; Quizhpi Merchán, Carmita Victoria; Mosquera Vallejo, Lorena Elizabeth; Quispe Bolaños, Marcelo
Antecedents and objective: The Andean cosmo-vision looks at the reality according to its paradigms, laws and principles based on the observation of nature and an analogical reasoning; the discomfort or disease has been understood as the imbalance of the harmony of being with oneself, with the family, with nature and with the cosmos. Therefore, the present study aims to understand the meanings and senses of the Kichwa malaise of the sages of ancestral medicine. Methodology: a qualitative, post-positivist phenomenological study of the discomfort was carried out from the perspective of traditional medicine with men and women of Andean wisdom from the city of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro. A snowball sampling was used and for convenience. The interviews were recorded and transcribed literally. The data was analyzed with the Atlas program using content analysis Results: ancestral medicine for disease and health are unique concepts in which refer to a state of the human being and not only to the state of organs or isolated parts of the body. Important elements of discomfort are pain and suffering. Discomfort is shared, sufferings are communal and the healing of someone is also the healing of others. The discomfort born in the coexistence that is always communal, the discomfort of others is also the discomfort of each one. Conclusions: The discomfort in the Kichwa communities of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro is caused by the disconnection or imbalance with oneself, with others, with nature and with the supernatural. The discomfort can be healed with the intermediation of the Yachaks or healers through different methods or elements, which constitutes a medicine different from conventional one whose approach is of the biochemical - molecular type.
Estudio cualitativo sobre el Malestar: Perspectivas de la medicina tradicional en Cuenca, El Tambo y Saraguro - Ecuador
(2017) Quizhpi Merchan, Carmita Victoria
Antecedents and objective: The Andean cosmo-vision looks at the reality according to its paradigms, laws and principles based on the observation of nature and an analogical reasoning; the discomfort or disease has been understood as the imbalance of the harmony of being with oneself, with the family, with nature and with the cosmos. Therefore, the present study aims to understand the meanings and senses of the Kichwa malaise of the sages of ancestral medicine. Methodology: a qualitative, post-positivist phenomenological study of the discomfort was carried out from the perspective of traditional medicine with men and women of Andean wisdom from the city of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro. A snowball sampling was used and for convenience. The interviews were recorded and transcribed literally. The data was analyzed with the Atlas program using content analysis Results: ancestral medicine for disease and health are unique concepts in which refer to a state of the human being and not only to the state of organs or isolated parts of the body. Important elements of discomfort are pain and suffering. Discomfort is shared, sufferings are communal and the healing of someone is also the healing of others. The discomfort born in the coexistence that is always communal, the discomfort of others is also the discomfort of each one. Conclusions: The discomfort in the Kichwa communities of Cuenca, El Tambo and Saraguro is caused by the disconnection or imbalance with oneself, with others, with nature and with the supernatural. The discomfort can be healed with the intermediation of the Yachaks or healers through different methods or elements, which constitutes a medicine different from conventional one whose approach is of the biochemical- molecular type.
Historia de las prácticas médicas en Cuenca
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2007) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
La alimentación de los mayores. perspectiva de cambios en la producción y consumo en comunidades de Saraguro, El Tambo y Cuenca, 2016
(2018) Quishpe Bolaños, Jorge Marcelo
From a physical perspective, the Andes has been a challenge for the people living there, who have filled it with memories. In other words, it’s a space that contains footprints of older cultures and practical knowledge of the present, resulting in a long process in construction, resistance and adaptation to the unending colonialist experience. It is evident today that in the septentrional Andes, community and family experience in the management of contiguous bio-regions is prevalent. It has facilitated the access to diverse food products that constitute the base of their diets, a societal and symbolic network that gives them a sense of belonging. Through the eight stories built on the lives of commoners from the towns of Saraguro, Cañari and the mestizos inhabitants of Cuenca located to the south Ecuadorian sierra, strategies will be shown on how the management of space is used. It’s relationship to the food production by a generation born during the first half of the twentieth century, the changes that have affected the descendants throughout that century and all coinciding with a time of a political state and societal modernization
La investigación en Ciencias Médicas en la Universidad de Cuenca en los años 20 del siglo XX
(2021) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
La medicina china y el diagnóstico tradicional
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2009) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo
La lógica de los mundos y la cosmovisión andina
(Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, 2016-09) Achig Balarezo, David Ricardo; Angulo Rosero, Aydee Narcisa; Rojas Reyes, Rosendo Iván; Contento Minga, Lidia Esther; Drexler, Josef
This paper is a review of conceptual elements of the Andean worldview, from the philosophy of logic of worlds. It is a reflection that proposes a dialectical analysis of Andean rationality and health, from the partial connections, the double bond and multiculturalism