Saberes tradicionais indígena sobre cuidados em saúde

Abstract

The study focuses on the traditional knowledge and practice of indigenous health care. Several areas of science, from a new perspective, acknowledge the relevance of the knowledge of the indigenous peoples regarding health care (WHO, 2014). This monographic study aims to register indigenous traditional knowledge about health and dispose them as a source of knowledge and approximation with the academic community. It is a methodological research that has addressed two stages: the search for a scientific knowledge through an integrative review of the literature and the systematic recording of information. The bibliographic survey was carried out using the LILACS, PubMed / MEDLINE, CINAHL, VHL, WEB OF SCIENCE and SCOPUS databases with the descriptors in Portuguese, English and Indigenous Spanish / "indigenous" / "indigenous" knowledge / "knowledge" "Traditional /" traditional "and" health "/" salud ", using the publication period from 2008 to 2018. In this bibliographic survey 18 articles were selected, as they answered the guiding question of the research. When dealing with traditional health care by indigenous people, many forms are used, all for the purpose of curing and preventing diseases and other ills, through the management of plants, food and rituals. After the choice of content, short texts were produced chronologically and systematically, composed of indigenous traditional knowledge about health. It is hoped to bring the light of the knowledge registry on health, previously passed orally, that over time has been lost. Considering that the register of health knowledge can serve the indigenous community in its peculiarities, as well as bring such knowledge to the academic milieu. This work also provided a new perspective on how nurses can contribute to health care among these groups, going beyond the promotion of the rational use and selection of medicines, creating strategies of mutual care with the community and the intersectoriality of contemporary health. What is described in the studies of the scientific universe on traditional knowledge in health?