Maya Population Guatemala

Anne Fadiman’s novel, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, addresses key concerns regarding health and medicinal relationships with cultural beliefs. She challenges readers to consider what is known about western medicinal practices and beliefs, based on science, and recognize its effectiveness when paired with cultural understanding. This novel portrays some of the greatest medicinal and health challenges and cultural failures of western societies. There were several cultural competency themes integrated throughout the book, however, it surprised me at how distant western practices and the Hmong’s healing methods were at the beginning. It seemed as if it would be a stretch to form a connection between these two extremities,

Poverty affects both urban and rural Guatemalans, but rural residents, including most of the Maya population, generally live under harsher conditions.

The timing of prenatal care of most Mexican-origin women is relatively late compared to the pregnancies from other races and a lot of Mexican pregnancies have not received ideal medical care. The cause would be that they are encountering language barrier. In the article “Prenatal Care Experiences and

Thirty-Five Native American tribes exist in Washington State. The Tulalip tribe resides in Marysville, Washington bordering the town that I live in. The Tulalip Tribes are the state’s second largest tribal group. In the past Cascade Midwives & Birth center, where I plan to practice my skills, has conducted mini prenatal clinics for expectant Tulalip mothers. While, in recent years it has not been as prevalent. Midwives have been integral for many underprivileged women to get quality healthcare throughout pregnancy. These women are typically marginalized in society but can be well served by midwives. Midwives are less threatening and believe in informal consent, they allow people to make their own decisions. This helps avoid the stigma of a

This blatant discrimination and racism in the health care system makes it unsafe and uncomfortable for First Nations people to access health services. As a consequence, opportunities for early intervention and prevention of health problems are reduced significantly (HCC, 2012). When considering these consequences in terms of pre and post-natal care, Smith (2003) argues that weak preventative and health-promoting care during these times is a significant contributor to poor health outcomes throughout an individual’s life. Research conducted by Dr. Janet Smylie, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Toronto, indicates that the rate of First Nations infant mortality on reserves is double that of the national average (as cited in Webster, 2012). This shocking statistic is demonstrative of the failing efforts of any government initiated First Nations health care programming.

In the Alaskan native communities, the midwife was a central role. According to the stories Mulcahy heard from the women in the village, the midwives knew how to heal, and that was why they were trusted over western care (Mulcahy 44). Some village women also could not pay a doctor’s fees so they went to a midwife (Mulcahy 47). The women Mulcahy interviewed shared their positive experiences with the midwives. They were helpful with prenatal care as well as postpartum care by doing chores around the house for the mother (Mulcahy 48). When the Community Health Aide Program was introduced, midwives transitioned from just delivering babies to also caring for the sick, thus increasing the significance of the midwife (Mulcahy 63).

The Maya understanding of medicine comes from a close relationship with the natural world around them. The Mayan empire stretched from ------to----- and included a vast and varied landscape encompassing several ecosystems and climates. This meant that there were a plethora of natural threats and sicknesses, but also a great access to herbal remedies. The members of the group responsible for healing

When I return to my New Mexican community as a midwife, I hope to influence practice through improving cultural competence in birth, improving health literacy in pregnancy/birth, and through increasing education and awareness of childbirth (natural childbirth, and other birthing options) and nutrition/exercise during pregnancy.

A mother's role plays an important part in Guatemalan families. The mothers eat less food so that their kids can eat more. Women eat Chirmol in most communities, it is a (cooked, mashed tomato with some salt), pasta, a rice or oatmeal based drink, and sometimes beans. Mothers in indigenous communities usually give birth at home not at a hospital. A child is five times more likely to die before their fifth birthday in Guatemala than in the United States. 9 out of 10 rural schools don't have books for education. 50% of Guatemalans, mostly rural indigenous, live in inadequate houses. Girls in Guatemala have the least access to education. Over a million houses in Guatemala are cobbled together with cornstalks, cane, and scavenged materials.

What causes of problems Mayas and Other Native American groups face in Guatemala? To me, I think the cultural because most people in Mayas don't have anywhere to stay or either have a place to stay.Or either some people have own land and some don't.People there feel like they weren't meant to stay there feel like they don't belong there. Like for example, they feel like that the land they work is often of poor.Women feel like they are more of Gateman man than a Maya.How are people trying to solve these problems they are trying to create more free programs to help that don't have anywhere to

Infant and child mortality among Indigenous peoples have increased systematically despite the decline in infant mortality rate in many regions. For example, in Latin America, infant mortality among indigenous children is 60 percent greater than for non-indigenous children (48 per one thousand births compared to 30 per one thousand, respectively), ranging from 1.11 times higher in Chile to 3.09 times higher than the general population in Panama. Specific studies have documented that children from the Campa Ashaninka and Machiguenda in Peru, the Wayu of Venezuela, the Tzotzil of Mexico, and the Xavante in Brazil have a higher risk of death before reaching one year of age than non indigenous children (Support et al., 2014).

In Mexico, midwives were considered to be the experts of maternal health care until the advancement of biomedicine made them insignificant. Presently, there are high maternal mortality rates in the country and now there is a movement to increase the practice of midwifery to solve this problem. Many midwives believe that the medicalization of birth and hospital-based obstetric practices are the causes of the high maternal mortality rates. They aim to “define and regulate specific obstetric practices in terms of overt violence and

published in Science magazine, between 820 and 870 A.D., the Maya received 40 percent less rainfall than in prior decades. Scientists surmise that the lack of rainfall tore at the social fabric of the Maya civilization. The findings are based on the

Global disparities in residences and households has existed for as long as society has with some households being more well off than others. The result of the financial situation of a family can determine the amount of antenatal care and delivery care provided to a mother and child, it also influences maternal mortality. The financial support of household can be the difference between a woman having access to care options and death. Women who receive at least four antenatal care sessions, the recommended about by The World Health Organisation (PROGRESS FOR CHILDREN, 2008) are far more likely to survive childbirth than woman who do not have the opportunity to have four antenatal visits. In West and Central Africa and South Asia where the disparities are at some of their largest in antenatal care, the top echelon of women ( the richest 20%) and the poorest women have vastly different attendance during antenatal can between 2010 and 2015.

The population of the Mayan people was decreasing at a fast rate the reason why was because of the warfare that was going on in Guatemala. In the article “Guatemalan Indian children and the sociocultural effects of government-sponsored terrorisms” Margarita discusses the decrease of population, “in Guatemala, the Mayan population felt the worst of a systematic and brutal counterinsurgency, where over 400 rural villages