La medicina social-salud colectiva latinoamericanas: una visión integradora frente a la salud pública tradicional

Translated title of the contribution: Latin-american social medicine/public health: An integrative vision facing traditional public health

Research output: Contribution to journalResearch Articlepeer-review

14 Scopus citations

Abstract

Introduction: Functionalism as an approach to public health has not gone beyond its historical crisis regarding the solution of problems in caring for disease or producing health among individuals and collectivities. This is because its epistemological basis is restrictive and current resources in health systems neither guarantee health nor improve the quality of life for the collectivity. Development: At the same time, Latin American Social Medicine and Public Health have expanded this horizon by debating the epistemological sense of health as a complex disciplinary field where knowledge and practices are approached from different paradigms and epistemic perspectives. Conclusions: Social Medicine and Public Health (sm/ph) resignify our understanding of the health-disease process by incorporating additional processes. Through conceptual approaches, this article interrogates the sm/ ph approach to three processes: An epistemological consideration of health; the relationship between the social sciences and health; and criticisms of the preventive model and conventional epidemiology. These aspects validate sm/ ph’s contribution to interpreting the health-decease process in difficult scenarios stemming from the commodification of health and the crisis of the State.

Translated title of the contributionLatin-american social medicine/public health: An integrative vision facing traditional public health
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)397-408
Number of pages12
JournalRevista ciencias de la salud
Volume15
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 5 2017

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Health(social science)

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Latin-american social medicine/public health: An integrative vision facing traditional public health'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this