Interculturalidad y formación superior en salud indígena: aportes para un proyecto político-pedagógico emancipatorio.

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The right of special attention to indigenous health is covered by two directives of the National Health Care for Indigenous Peoples that deals with the training of human resources and *Doctora en Antropologia Social por la Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil. Becaria de Posdoctorado del programa Brasil sem Miseria/CAPES, en la Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. Direccion postal: R. Leopoldo Bulhoes, 1480, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Correo electronico: lu.ouriquesf@gmail.com ** Doctor en Ciencias de la Salud por la Universidade Federal de Brasilia, Brasil/ Centro de Estudos Sociais en Coimbra. Profesor Adjunto del Departamento de Salud Colectiva, Universidade Federal de Brasilia. Secretario Ejecutivo del Conselho Nacional de Saude. Direccion postal: Esplanada dos Ministerios, Bloco G Edificio Anexo, Ala B 1o andar, Sala 103B, Brasilia, DF. Correo electronico: marcio.florentino@saude.gov.br El articulo es producto del proyecto “Interculturalidad y Salud Coletiva: aportes para un proyecto politicopedagogico emancipatorio para la salud indigena”, desarrollado en el ano 2012 en el Departamento de Salud Colectiva de la Universidade de Brasilia. 1 Traducido al espanol por Evilene Paixao, periodista. 110 isees_ no 13, julio diciembre 2013 recommends that health services act in a coordinated manner to indigenous medicines . The lack of intercultural competence of health professionals to work in culturally different communities constitutes an obstacle to the implementation of this right. The higher education of indigenous arises, then, as a means of qualifying health care provided to these people. However, undergraduate courses in health have not yet developed appropriate methodologies to address the socio-cultural specificities of these people. It is the collective health an important role in building a political-pedagogical project emancipatory, based on the ecology of knowledge, for training in Indigenous health.