Analisi delle politiche sanitarie in materia di cancro cervico-uterino nella zona degli Altipiani del Chiapas

Abstract

Every year 250.000 women still die all over the world because of cervical cancer (WHO, 2010), which is nowadays a highly preventable and treatable desease. In this article I would like to offer an analysis of three different health programs that work on intervention strategies in the Mexican indigenous contexts for the prevention and treatment of cervical-uterine cancer. These programs are “Oportunidades”, “Planificación familiar” and “Prevención y Detección Oportuna del Cáncer Cérvico Uterino”. Aim of these programs is to show how a not properly structured medical intervention, not only does not promote an actual reduction of risk factors associated with the disease, buti it does encourage its spread.