Testimonios y prácticas tradicionales sobre la muerte materna e infantil en las comunidades Kichwas de Santa Ana, Quingeo y Shiña, provincia del Azuay

Abstract

Qualitative research about knowledge, practices, structures, meaning and perspective of social actors around maternal and child death Kichwa ethnicity of Azuay, applied for its culture, to the parishes of Santa Ana, Quingeo and Shina, describing their geographic, demographic and cultural features, developed through ethnographic methods such as life stories, semi-structured interviews and observation. According to the results of interviews with those involved agree to attribute all the causes and consequences of maternal and infant death to the "Will of God", or as a natural process of life, as well as traditional practices that they perform all have a religious base rzos, songs, ceremonies, etc. Overall, his life revolves around God, the mystical, notions and experiences acquired from generation to generation and have been passed long and are preserved until today, and this is valuable information to highlight. All this developed in order to raise a proposal to improve the coverage and quality of health care in order to help reduce maternal and child death