What matters beyond particle matter?: Examining air pollution's synergistic effects on bodies and health through Bio3Science in Medellin.

Scientific literature on the health effects of air pollution is diverse, and broadly acknowledges the importance of human experience and social and economic precarity as modifying factors. Still, the inclusion of the embodied experience of air pollution has been limited. Also, the health effects of pollution are often studied at the group or population level, without adequately considering individual difference. This paper uses a Bio3Science framework, which integrates biology, biography, and biosphere, to explore how air pollution affects residents in Medellín, Colombia. By using qualitative research on individual experiences of air pollution (biography) to probe the intersection of individual health (biology) and environment (biosphere), we illustrate how pollution shapes lived rhythms at multiple scales. Our findings emphasize that air pollution's health impacts extend beyond measurable pollutants to include the complex synergies of smoke, noise, stress, and disruptions to daily life. This comprehensive approach provides a nuanced understanding of how air pollution materially shapes the lives of individuals and communities, advocating for research models that capture the subtle, everyday experiences often overlooked by traditional group or population-level analyses.

Situación actual de la salud familiar en México / Current status of family health in Mexico

La Salud Familiar (SF) está conformada por tres elementos principales: la salud individual, las condiciones materiales de vida y el funcionamiento familiar. Sus principales actores son el individuo, la familia y la sociedad. Considerarlos en su conjunto nos llevaría a entender cómo se construye la SF, ya que cada uno de ellos es extremadamente importante. En México actualmente se consideran dos aspectos: los estudios epidemiológicos y los inherentes a la especialidad de medicina familiar, la cual a través de la residencia médica y su programa único de especialidad, así como la certificación del colegio correspondiente, nos permite aplicar el abordaje de la SF en cada una de las familias e individuos que se atienden.

Family Health (FH) has three main elements: individual health, life material conditions and family functioning. Its main actors are the individual, the family and society. A common framework is the basis of FH, as each one of these elements is extremely important. Currently, in Mexico two aspects are considered: epidemiological studies and those inherent to the family medicine specialty. That latter has a residency and an integrated specialty curriculum, as well as certification from the corresponding board. All of this allows us to apply the HF approach to each and every family and individual that is cared for.

Estilos saludables de vida y su relevancia en la salud del individuo / Healthy life Styles: Their importance on the individual's health

El objetivo de este trabajo fue realizar una revisión de la literatura publicada sobre los estilos de vida que se encuentran más presentes en la vida moderna, con el fin de aumentar la educación sanitaria dirigida a estomatólogos y médicos para el conocimiento y enfrentamiento de estos factores de riesgo en la comunidad. El trabajo se llevó a cabo mediante la búsqueda bibliográfica de lo publicado sobre el tema en libros del Ministerio de Salud Pública, en la prensa escrita y en revistas de medicina y odontología. Estos últimos se seleccionaron mediante el programa informático de base de datos Medline, el Index Medicus y el Index to Dental Literature. Todas estas fuentes han sido consultadas hasta el 2004. Entre los hábitos no saludables y modificables que afectan con mayor frecuencia los estilos de vida se identifican: el estrés, el tabaquismo, el alcoholismo, el sedentarismo y los malos hábitos alimentarios, en la vida moderna estos factores de riesgo se multiplican cada día más y están cada vez más presentes en los diversos grupos de edades, predominando los estilos de vida insanos. En la presente revisión se analizan cada uno de ellos con sus consecuencias negativas para la salud del individuo y se hace énfasis en la modificación de los mismos promoviendo estilos de vida saludables, por lo que este material servirá como soporte electrónico y podrá utilizarse como material de consulta para cualquier profesional de la salud que lo necesite.

The objective of this work was to carry out a revision of the literature published about the life styles that are more present in the modern life, with the purpose to increase the sanitary education directed to dentists and doctors for the knowledge and confrontation of these factors of risk in the community. The work was carried out by means of the bibliographical search of published about the topic of the Ministry of Public Health, in the written press and in medicine and dentistry journals. These last ones were selected by means of database Medline, the Index Medicus and the index to dental literature. All these sources have been consulted up to 2004. Among the not healthy habits and amendable ones that affect with more frequency the life styles they are identified: stress, tobaccoism, alcoholism, sedetarism and bad alimentary habits, in the modern life these factors of risk are multiply every day and they are more and more present in the different groups of ages, prevailing the insane life styles. In the present revision they are analyzed each one of them with their negative consequences for the fellow's health and it is made emphasis in the modification of these habits promoting healthy life styles.