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Enero-junio 2012 N° 1 Volumen 5

Health, transparency and social participation and involvement

Section: Opinion

How to quote

Mínguez Arias J, Martínez Riera JR. Salud, transparencia y participación social. RIdEC 2012; 5(1):38-42.

Authors

1Jorge Mínguez Arias, 2José Ramón Martínez Riera

Position

1 Enfermero y Licenciado en Antropología Social y Cultural. Profesor de Enfermería Comunitaria. Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería.2Departamento de enfermería comunitaria, medicina preventiva y salud pública e historia de la ciencia, Facultad de ciencias de la salud, Universidad de Alicante.

Abstract

Health, transparency and social participation and involvement
In the health-disease concept of western hegemonic medical model (WHMM), both terms are equally all-encompassing socially and are full of significance at the same time that they act like real arcanes in our culture.

The first impression they offered is to be something unique and homogeneous within a set of complementary actions, which, chaired by altruism, make up much of the developed modern world architecture. Hence, in view of this apparent social consensus that exists in both concepts (health-disease and WHMM), we would like to highlight certain underlying elements that we believe distort this apparent harmony and lead to the domination and subjugation of people as a result of being the users of a health system based on the high concentration of power by professionals, the mutability of the resistance of the population, their  uncritical spirit, the social construction of short-lived myths, the accumulation of wealth produced quickly and all of it media supported by advanced technical advances.

This is what governs marks and controls the law of supply and demand in the mentioned WHMM, forgetting the real role of health and health services in the life of human beings, which are or should be tools and not an end in itself.

Keywords:

disease; health; hegemonic medical model

Versión en Español

Título:

Salud, transparencia y participación social