A look at health from an anthropological perspective
Journal Title: Más Vita - Year 2022, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction:Anthropology as a science provides health workers with guidelines for the development of research activity and scientific tools to determine the characteristics of a certain social environment in which they carry out their work. Objective:Anthropological analysis of health, the relationship of the health-disease-care process and society. Materials and methods:An ethnographic documentary research was used, at a descriptive level. Results:The influence of anthropology includes the health-disease-care trinomial, as a universal element and the study of biological, psychological, cultural and social dimensions, where its object of study is framed in the analysis of the various belief systems. and practices in the field of health, as well as the process of health, disease and care. Conclusion:It offers a new perspective of analysis, relevance and application of anthropology in its relationship with public health, as well as an analytical-critical evaluation in society and its potential uses, highlighting the critical perspective of different anthropological science researchers
Authors and Affiliations
Evelyn de la Llana Pérez, Rodrigo José Cortez Méndez, Walter Jorge Cruzata
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