Testimonios y prácticas tradicionales sobre la muerte materna e infantil en la etnia Shuar de la provincia de Morona Santiago

Abstract

With the aim of conoer the characteristics of the Shuar and family attitudes to child and maternal death. Qualitative study that analyzed anliza thoughts and subjective feelings of the people interviewed by the Shuar ethnic group in the province of Morona Santiago (Tiwintza, Indanza Limón and San Juan Bosco), compared to maternal and infant mortality. The sample was obtained by saturation data were collected through unstructured relatives of the deceased interviews, information was collected on audio cassettes, typed in Microsoft Word, coded in the Atlas program, ti, 2.4 and through this network of relationships, concpetuales maps and categorization is made. The Shuar has gradually lost its traditional customs and identity, acculturation without actually believing in a supreme God who gave them life and according to its laws should cumplñirlas to reach heaven. The Shuar has formal and informal services health, death of the mother or the child are equally important in family feelings. Its main causes are due to lack of information on health and the difficult geographic access to various health services