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El aporte de la epidemiología a la salud colectiva / Contribution of epidemiology to collective health
Zuliani Arango, Liliana.
  • Zuliani Arango, Liliana; Universidad de Antioquia. Facultad de Enfermería. Medellín. CO
Iatreia ; 23(4): 354-361, dic. 2010-feb. 2011.
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-599282
RESUMEN
Este ensayo trata de identificar algunos de los aportes de la epidemiología a la salud colectiva, evaluar la relación entre ambas y promover la reflexión académica frente a esta última como un campo permeado por diferentes disciplinas, entre ellas la epidemiología crítica. Se hace un recorrido desde la perspectiva histórica, analizando los enfoques y objetos de estudio de la epidemiología y su relación con la salud colectiva a cuya consolidación contribuyó. La epidemiología ha pasado por diferentes momentos, desde el tradicional, subordinado al saber clínico y dedicado a estudiar las causas de las enfermedades, hasta uno crítico, contemporáneo, que busca relacionar lo clínico, lo social, lo cultural y lo político del proceso salud-enfermedad, en el contexto histórico, y que se estructura sobre el trípode formado por la clínica, la estadística y la medicina social; este es el enfoque de la epidemiología que ha hecho los aportes más significativos a la salud colectiva.
ABSTRACT
This essay is an attempt to identify some of the contributions that epidemiology has made to collective health, to evaluate their relationship, and to promote the academic reflection on the latter as a field of study permeated by different disciplines, among them critical epidemiology. The approaches and study objects of epidemiology, and its contributions to consolidation of collective health, are analyzed from a historical perspective. Epidemiology has passed through different moments, namely the traditional one subordinated to clinical knowledge and devoted to study the etiology of disease, and the contemporary, critical one, that tries to correlate the clinical, social, cultural and political aspects of the health-disease process in a historical context. The latter rests on a tripod made up of clinics, statistics and social medicine, and has made the most significant contributions to collective health.
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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Social Medicine / Social Sciences / Public Health / Disease / Epidemiology / Risk Factors / Endemic Diseases Type of study: Etiology study / Prognostic study / Risk factors / Screening study Limits: Humans Language: Spanish Journal: Iatreia Journal subject: Medicine Year: 2010 Type: Article Affiliation country: Colombia Institution/Affiliation country: Universidad de Antioquia/CO

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Main subject: Social Medicine / Social Sciences / Public Health / Disease / Epidemiology / Risk Factors / Endemic Diseases Type of study: Etiology study / Prognostic study / Risk factors / Screening study Limits: Humans Language: Spanish Journal: Iatreia Journal subject: Medicine Year: 2010 Type: Article Affiliation country: Colombia Institution/Affiliation country: Universidad de Antioquia/CO