title: [The Sanumá-Yanomami medical system and indigenous peoples' health policy in Brazil].
abstract: The purpose of this study is to discuss how the Sanumá indigenous people, a subgroup of the Yanomami linguistic family, located in northern Roraima State, Brazil, interacts with and relates to the public policy for indigenous people's health. Missionaries and Brazilian government and non-governmental organization employees are the agents with whom the Sanumá had to deal during the implementation of a healthcare policy. The ethnography of this interrelationship, permeated by moments of epidemic outbreaks, clashes, and attempts at collaboration, raises questions on the implementation of health services in indigenous territories.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brasil.
authors.forename: Sílvia Maria Ferreira
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Guimarães
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001938:Brazil; D006291:Health Policy; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American; D011640:Public Policy; D019423:Shamanism