Kume mongen on the Coast: Contexts and Course Changes in Intercultural Health in the South of Chile

The current entanglement of intercultural health and kume mongen (good health or good life) in the Williche territory of Chile is an unstable and contradictory construction that emerged as an ideological and utopian response to three simultaneous processes: the neoliberal acceleration of dispossession and eco-social degradation, the neoliberal implementation of a special health care policy for indigenous peoples, and various forms of lack of access to health care. El entrelazamiento actual de la salud intercultural y el kume mongen (buena salud o buena vida) en el territorio williche de Chile es una construccion inestable y contradictoria que surgio como una respuesta ideologica y utopica a tres procesos simultaneos: la aceleracion neoliberal del despojo y la degradacion ecosocial, la implementacion neoliberal de una politica especial de atencion de la salud para los pueblos indigenas, y diversas manifestaciones de falta de acceso a la atencion medica.

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The current entanglement of intercultural health and kume mongen (good health or good life) in the Williche territory of Chile is an unstable and contradictory construction that emerged as an ideological and utopian response to three simultaneous processes: the neoliberal acceleration of dispossession and eco-social degradation, the neoliberal implementation of a special health care policy for indigenous peoples, and various forms of lack of access to health care.