The meanings of emotional ailments in a marginalized community in Mexico City.

The population's conceptions about health are crucial to the development of any intervention strategy in the field of public health. We are interested in describing the sense adult inhabitants confer on emotional ailments in daily life. We used the Theory of Social Representations as a framework of reference and a multimethod perspective, which will enable us to recover the subjective experience of participants in the study, not only regarding emotional suffering, but also as a means of incorporating their perceptions of pleasurable states into their everyday lives.

[Diseases and illnesses for which help is sought from traditional healers in Mexico City].

Objective: The aim of this paper is to describe the main reasons why people consult traditional healers in Mexico City.

Material And Methods: The narrative of 16 traditional healers and 22 users of this type of medicine is the main source of information. This study used a qualitative approach.