02300nas a2200385   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002000043653001000063653001200073653002800085653002300113653001800136653002000154653001800174653001900192653001800211653001800229653002500247653003100272653002200303653002000325653002600345653002500371100001400396700001700410700002000427700001500447245013100462856015400593300001200747490000700759520112800766022002001894                                       d10aAndean medicine10aAndes10aEcuador10aarchaeological evidence10acultural influence10aethnomedicine10ahealing rituals10ahealth belief10ahealth beliefs10ahealth models10ahealth policy10aindigenous knowledge10ainterdisciplinary approach10amedical geography10apolicy approach10atraditional knowledge10atraditional medicine1 aE. Currie1 aJ. Schofield1 aF. Ortega Perez1 aD. Quiroga00aHealth beliefs, healing practices and medico-ritual frameworks in the Ecuadorian Andes: the continuity of an ancient tradition  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049125778&doi=10.1080%2f00438243.2018.1474799&partnerID=40&md5=349eea0e54e5572a95e96fbba1decbae  a461-4790 v503 aThis paper introduces the European Commission-funded project ‘MEDICINE: Indigenous Concepts of Health and Healing in Andean Populations’, which takes a time-depth perspective to its subject, and uses a framework of interdisciplinary methods which integrates archaeological-historical, ethnographic and modern health sciences approaches. The long-term study objective is ultimately to offer novel perspectives and methods in the global agenda to develop policies sensitive to indigenous, refugee and migrant people’s social, economic and health needs, as well as culturally sensitive approaches to the conservation of their ‘intangible cultural heritage’. This paper focuses on the project’s first phase, the critical examination of archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence and accounts from contemporary indigenous practitioners of Andean Traditional Medicine. These sources then shape the development of health beliefs and practices models which have informed the development of questionnaires for the second ‘survey’ phase of three indigenous Andean populations in the Central Sierra region of Ecuador.  a00438243 (ISSN)