Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Introduction: The reduction of social exposures harmful to health or the increase of those that favor it may be possible with social epidemiology, because it focuses on the causal models that arise from social action without neglecting the biological and physiological factors of the pathologies.Objective: Describe the foundations and approaches of social epidemiology.Development: The characteristics that define and distinguish social epidemiology as a specialty of epidemiology, the theoretical conceptualization on which it is based, its object of being, its applicability in the context of the health of populations and its investigative tendency were described. as a powerful tool in the fight to promote understanding of the health-disease phenomenon; without leaving out the opinion that the authors have in this regard.Conclusions: Social epidemiology is defined as the articulation and complementation between anthropology and epidemiology, aimed at understanding social factors at a macro level beyond the concausal paradigm, in a conjunction between the positivist paradigm (clearly quantitative) and qualitative methods, among which the complexity theory given the intricacy of human relationships in an attempt to understand the role of social inequities in alterations in the health of populations.Keywords: social epidemiology; Health; illness; paradigm; health policies.
Source: Infodir
Institution: Universidad de Carabobo
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7214698130