scholarly journals A critical perspective on pandemics and epidemics: building a bridge between public health and science education

Author(s):  
Liliana Henao-Kaffure ◽  
Gonzalo Peñaloza
2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 688-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Sprague Martinez ◽  
Edmond Bowers ◽  
Amanda J. Reich ◽  
Uchenna J. Ndulue ◽  
Albert An Le ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (3Sup) ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
María Teresa Buitrago Echeverri

<p><strong>Resumen </strong></p><p>La discapacidad, como una construcción social, implica las representaciones sociales y las prácticas que, en consecuencia, se derivan y tienen implicaciones sobre la vida de individuos, grupos o poblaciones. Algunas de las respuestas a las necesidades de las personas con discapacidad se han gestado en instituciones que nacieron con fines filantrópicos y se han ido transformado. Este escrito forma parte de una investigación sobre las construcciones sociales de discapacidad en Colombia en las últimas cuatro décadas, la cual fue desarrollada a través de una etnografía multisituada con perspectiva crítica, cuyas fuentes de indagación fueron experiencias institucionales, grupales, personales y documentos; aquí, se ilustran las transformaciones de instituciones dedicadas a la atención de esta población en lo relacionado con su inserción en la lógica del mercado de la salud a partir de la Ley 100 de 1993.</p><p>Igualmente, este estudio muestra cómo las instituciones han instaurado una carrera desmedida para poder entrar y mantenerse en los juegos del mercado de la venta de servicios, situación que confirma el posicionamiento de la salud como un negocio, y en este campo, a la rehabilitación funcional como el estandarte a seguir.</p><p>Artificios como la acreditación de servicios, el mercadeo social, la oferta de las últimas tecnologías y las diversas especialidades y subespecialidades, además de los eufemismos de cambios de nombre, se esgrimen a manera de capitales simbólicos, culturales y económicos que mantienen estos actores en el campo de la discapacidad como un asunto de prestación de servicios que aleja la relación entre la salud pública y la discapacidad.</p><p><strong>Palabras clave</strong>: Antropología médica;  Salud pública; Servicios de Salud (DeCS).</p><p><strong>Summary</strong></p><p>Disability as a social construct involves social representations and practices that are a consequence of it, and which have implications on the lives of individuals, groups or populations. Some of the answers to the needs of people with disabilities had their birth in institutions that were create with philanthropic purposes and have been experiencing a transformation processs. This paper is part of an investigation about social constructions of disability in Colombia over the past four decades, developed through a critical perspective multipurpose ethnography whose sources of inquiry were expediencies from institutions, groups, and people, as well as documentation related to this topic. In this paper the transformation of institutions devoted to the care of this population with regard to their entry into the health market, since the enactment of Law 100 of 1993, is illustrated.</p><p>Furthermore, this study shows how the institutions take part in an inordinate career to enter and stay in services provision market , a scenario that confirms the positioning  of Health as a business, and in this field, functional rehabilitation as the standard to follow.</p><p>Artifices like service accreditation, social marketing, modern technologies offer and the different specialties and subspecialties, in addition to the euphemisms related to name changes, are put forward as symbolic, cultural and economic capitals that keep the players on the field disability as a matter of service delivery, which takes away the relationship between public health and disability.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong> Medical anthropology; Public health; Health services (MeSH).</p>


Author(s):  
Agus Joko Susanto ◽  
Amos Neolaka ◽  
Hafid Abbas ◽  
Evi Nopiyanti

Public health servicesneed serious attention in Indonesia. In fact, the number of health workers is sufficient enough and even excessive in certain areas. This situation is caused by lack of observing principles of the local and national cultural values in carrying out the public health services. We reviewed the published literature over the current satisfactory level of people with regard to thehealth services. Furthermore, we compared the results between residents of the suburb and urban areas regarding the national health services. This critical perspective offerred a concept of health services based on the cultural values with the belief that these values can influence the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviour of individuals, including health workers in rendering health services through health consultations. The purpose was to design a situated cultural learning, through which they can learn to respect and apply cultural values in implementing health services. To implement such cultural values, the concept of industrial revolution 4.0 and 5.0 is also needed, where individuals utilize and work together with machine learning technology or artificial intelligence.


2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Walmsley

Heroin withdrawal is perhaps one of the most taken-for-granted components of the addiction framework. Heroin users as well as researchers, policy makers, and practitioners have become dependent on it for thinking about and acting upon the process of heroin leaving the body. It is thought to be among the most challenging aspects of the recovery journey and has been linked to a range of public health, legal, and social problems. The taken-for-granted nature of heroin withdrawal has arguably limited its scrutiny in sociological and historical analyses. This article offers an alternative and critical perspective that draws attention to the heterogeneity of historical events and strategies that have left their mark on the withdrawing body of the heroin user. It maps changes in the discourse from the 18th century to the present and closes with developments in the neuroscience of addiction, which have relocated withdrawal from the body to the neurocircuitry of the brain and reframed it as a negative emotional state. This new language suggests the future of the discourse of withdrawal might be relatively short. The analysis moves beyond existing understandings of withdrawal as the simple absence of drugs from the body.


2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiji Yamada ◽  
Brian Taylor Slingsby ◽  
Megan K. Inada ◽  
David Derauf

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn Blue ◽  
Melanie Rock

The rapidity of technological change underpins the centrality of genomes in framing COVID-19 problems and proposals for remedies. We counter such framings through a critical perspective that seeks to infuse more-than-human geographies into public health.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document