Universidad Veracruzana

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM III

1. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: RESEARCH FOR PROPOSING THE MOST EFFICIENT AND LESS ETHNOCENTRIC FOOD SUPPLY AND HEALTH POLICIES, IN RELATION TO THE NATIVE POPULATIONS.

1.1. EDUCATION

1.1.1. The Actors and in charge responsible for the Health and Quality of Life Education Process.

1.1.2 Outcrop of new conceptions and unveiling of new assets and attitudes among different

Partners in what concerns the relationship Environment, Health and Culture.

1.1.3. The Quality of Life and Health improvements as Citizens Rights.

1.2. RESEARCH

1.2.1. Recovery of Traditional Native Knowledge Applied to Environment, Food Supply and Health Policy

1.3. DEVELOPMENT

1.3.1. Production, Diffusion, appropriation and reproduction of knowledge in Food Production and Managing Techniques.

1.3.2. Knowledge to enforce the establishment of Public Policies, focusing the human

development as a whole, with equity within the Environment, Food Supply, and Health Services,

to achieve a generalized outstanding life quality.

2. SOCIETY AND MEDICINAL PLANTS: CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM

2.1. Primary health, medicine, Phytochemistry, medicinal and aromatic plants

2.2. Research, assessment, key identification of old instruments, tools and substances used in

the art of healing

2.3. Ways of handling and use of various instruments in the art of healing

2.4. Understanding old uses for unveiling new applications

3. MEDICINAL PLANTS AND TECHNOLOGY

3.1. Pharmacology, Phytotherapy Aromatherapy and Medicinal Plants

3.2. Pharmacognosy, and Medicinal Plants.

3.3. Molecular Biology: Vegetal Genome and Transgenics.

3.4. Mathematical Botany: the Laws of Physics and Mathematics in the Natural Plant Domains.

4. THE CULTURAL HERITAGE : Native knowledge, Folk traditions, Ancient texts :

4.1. Africa (Geobotanical Scenarios and Native Healing).

4.2. Asia, India, China (Geobotanical Scenarios and Native Healing).

4.3. Europe, Mitteleuropa, Finno-Scandia,: Heilpflanzen, Volkstümliche Anwendung,

Geschichte, Arzneiwissenschaft.

4.4. Mesopotamia and Hinterland; Mediterranean domains: Greece, Bizance, and Rome.

4.5. North America: Great Plains, NW and SE Territories, Native Healing Practices.

4.6. Mesoamérica and South America: Aztec-Maya, Chibchas, Inca-Aymará, Mapuches,

Healing and Medicinal Practices. Food Production.

4.7. Australia and Oceany (Indian Ocean and West Pacific Ocean) Healing-Medicinal Practices.

5. ETHNOMEDICINE AND PRIMARY HEALTH ATTENTION

5.1. Perception and Social representation on the Process Health/Disease in different Cultures.

5.2. The Coexistence of different Health Systems within the same Society.

5.3. Nowadays Medical and Psychological Practices, versus Traditional and Alternative Practices.

5.4. Curative and Preventive Health Attention (Naturopathy).

5.5 Integrative actions among the different Medicine Practices: Health Policies.

Understanding the uniqueness of individuals within their singularity.

5.6. Health Policies. Community Medicine Actions.

5.7. The Actors and the Art of Healing: Healers Curing Practices.

5.8. Primary Health Attention Systems and functional gathering of Traditional and Alternative

Medicine Practices.