Risk and vulnerability in the health of indigenous communities: Mezcala, San Pedro Itzican and Agua Caliente, towns on the shores of Lake Chapala

Abstract

Indigenous communities in northeastern of Lake Chapala in Jalisco state, Mexico,record an outbreak of renal failure, which has been seen by local and state authoritiesas a multifactorial and indescribable problem.

Researchers from different disciplineshave been engaged in the search for answers to the problems of kidney disease presented by some of the inhabitants of the communities of the region and the social
implications that this brings with them. The supply of drinking water from hot springs from the volcanic area where Lake Chapala is located is considered a determining
(but not unique) factor. In addition to the level of marginalization and poverty that these localities show, presenting a change in the nutritional and nutritional pattern, thereby increasing the vulnerability and risk to diseases that are related to the intake
of water that is not suitable for human consumption dueto the high level of minerals that it contains and that do not have an adequate treatment to make it drinkable for
human consumption. The present work is a descriptive text, which is developed through the meta-analysis from the review of the antecedents and problems that have beendetected in the study area.

Therefore, we propose to carry out a historical recount
and review of the risk and vulnerability faced by the indigenous communities of theChapala riverbank, from the theoretical approach of the social construction of risk.