Abstract

BAYONA ESCAT, Eugenia. Enfermedad y pobreza en la Sierra de Chiapas. LiminaR [online]. 2011, vol.9, n.2, pp.93-115. ISSN 2007-8900.

This article explores the inequality and social exclusion that it suffers from the population of the region Sierra, Chiapas, in the field of health. Addressed from the testimonies of rural women who offer their own vision of health, disease and health care, and develop different strategies for dealing with the difficulties. It is intended to demonstrate how in an adverse environment, characterized by poverty and institutional neglect,, physical disorders are repeatable, become incurable and they contribute to the reproduction of marginality. Thus arises the disease of the poverty, which somatizes physical ills to express social deprivation.

Keywords : Chiapas's Sierra; poverty; social marginalization; disease of the poverty.

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