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La medicalización del malestar como proceso generador de desigualdad en el sistema de salud chileno / The medicalization of malaise as a generator of inequality in the Chilean heal... by Busta Cornejo, Cristián

“…This work hypothesizes that that the processes of medicalization applied to the area of mental health contribute to keep class inequalities among the users of private and public health services. They do so by offering highly differentiated solutions to the subjective malaise that underlies those diagnostics, depending on the budget of those who demand medical attention. …”
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Maternidad y salud mental de mujeres haitianas migrantes en Santiago de Chile: un estudio cualitativo by Carreño, Alejandra, Cabieses, Baltica, Obach, Alexandra, Gálvez, Piedad, Correa, María Eliana

“…Mental health emerged as one of the dimensions in which migrant mothers present risk factors associated with the contradictions between the models of motherhood promoted by the health services and those implemented by Haitian women, the feeling of loneliness, and the loss of networks that live in the migratory context and exposure to unwanted pregnancies due to lack of access of the Chilean health system and situations of domestic violence, against which women have little capacity to report. …”
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Mobility and accessibility to health by Lazo, Alejandra, Carreño-Calderón, Alejandra, Astorga, Sofía

“… Results: From the results, four categories were identified: a) Disparities in access to specific health services, b) discussions about geographic methods to measure health accessibility, c) case studies about mobility of health workers d) transport systems, daily mobility of patients and the experiences of journeys to health facilities.…”
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