El sentido del riesgo desde la antropología médica: consonancias y disonancias con la salud pública en dos enfermedades transmisibles
No. 3 (2006-07-01)Author(s)
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Roberto Suárez
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Elsa María Beltrán
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Tatiana Sánchez
Abstract
Risk as category of analysis can not be reduced as a numeric probability, as is usually understood in public health. Risk is a topic in modern societies that has been constructed as a pivotal issue to allow its technification and management while has acquired specific social meanings within people's social practices. This article seeks to understand the origin and construction the risk as a key concept in epidemiological studies and propose an analysis of two transmissible diseases: Rocky mountain spotted fever and HIV-AIDS. Both diseases show the complexity to understand the risk due to the visibility of AIDS and invisibility of the rocky Mountain Spotted fever.
Keywords:
risk, epidemiology, public health, medical anthropology, daily practices