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Author: MultiUn
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English[en]
The lack of comprehensive health care for Guatemalan women affects their individual and social development. In health, as in other areas of the development process, Guatemalan women and girls have been confronted with an organizational structure and philosophy whose perception and image of women is based on the idea that their sole function is reproduction and that their needs are therefore limited to maternal and child health and gynaecological and obstetric services. This approach completely ignores a series of needs and risks that they confront daily in their reproductive and non-reproductive lives
Spanish[es]
En aspectos de salud, tanto la mujer como la niña guatemalteca tal como sucede en otras áreas del proceso de desarrollo, se han visto confrontadas con una organización y filosofía cuya percepción e imagen de la mujer parte de la idea de que únicamente son reproductoras y por ende sus necesidades se limitan a los servicios mater-infantil y ginecoobstétricos, desconociendo por completo una serie de necesidades y riesgos a los cuales se enfrenta cotidianamente como parte de sus actividades reproductivas y no reproductivas