University of Manitoba Researcher Has Published New Study Findings on Health and Medicine (Role of bilingual guides in access to health care among Indigenous Wayuu population of Colombia): Health and Medicine

2023 SEP 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in agriculture. According to news reporting from the University of Manitoba by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Anas Wayuu is an Indigenous-led non-profit health insurance organization in Colombia.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from University of Manitoba: “It provides health care coverage to approximately 220,000 people, mostly Indigenous Wayuu, the largest Indigenous population in Columbia, living in La Guajira, the northeast region of the country, and in neighboring Venezuela. Anas Wayuu offers several intercultural health initiatives, among them the inclusion of bilingual guides for Wayuu families. The objective of the study was to describe the use of Anas Wayuu’s bilingual guides and determine whether use was associated with access and quality of care. A 34-item survey was conducted in 2020 to 2021 with a final sample of 2,113 Anas Wayuu enrollees and non-enrollees. Study findings demonstrated the relevance of bilingual guides programming.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “They suggested that bilingual guides improved individual’s capabilities to navigate the health care system, increased access to care, and increased their experience of quality of care. The findings strengthen the case for Indigenous self-governance over health care.”

For more information on this research see: Role of bilingual guides in access to health care among Indigenous Wayuu population of Colombia. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 2023. The publisher for AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is SAGE Publications.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801231194585.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Javier Mignone, Department of Community Health Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada. Additional authors for this research include Beda Suarez Aguilar, Aynslie Hinds, Yercine Duarte, Dorian Ospina, John Harold Gomez Vargas.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the author of this research: Javier Mignone (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7248-9341).

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