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Table 3 Predefined topics ‘health and illness’ and their 14 subtopics

From: Towards an indigenous definition of health: an explorative study to understand the indigenous Ecuadorian people’s health and illness concepts

Health

Four bodies

Religiosity

Health as a good diet

Health as god’s blessing, a gift

Health as balance, harmony

Health as community and social welfare

Health as potentiality, a skill

Health as peacefulness

Health as individual will

Illness

Illness as imbalance

Illness as bad energy

Illness as a bad diet

Illness as suffering, worry

Illness from God, Nature and People