Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología

Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol | eISSN 2011-4273 | ISSN 1900-5407

El sentido del riesgo desde la antropología médica: consonancias y disonancias con la salud pública en dos enfermedades transmisibles

No. 3 | 2006-07-01
  • Roberto Suárez
  • Elsa María Beltrán
  • Tatiana Sánchez
https://doi.org/10.7440/antipoda3.2006.05

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

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