2018, Number 3
A look of health from social participation in sparsely populated Colombian Pacific
Language: Spanish
References: 19
Page: 40-49
PDF size: 189.92 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Social community participation is defined as "the right to a significant participation in decision making concerning health, policy and planning, care and treatment", where community is committed as a group or as individuals".Objective: To describe the concept of health from the community perspective.
Methods: A qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study was carried out through focus groups and individual interviews with leaders of two communities of the Colombian Pacific Coast participating in the project "Feasibility of developing a model based on primary health care for municipalities with high rural dispersion of the Pacific coast".
Results: The vast majority of actors perceive health from different perspectives, reaching a consensus from community participation to prioritize needs and suggest intervention proposals. Within the conception that health is described that health is "a right", "is well-being", "to be clean", "to wash one's hands", "is not to go to the doctor", "is to be well", "is to have a house", "is to eat well", "to feel good", "to be relieved", "it is long life" among others. These concepts that part of beliefs, traditions of their own culture, which is deteriorated by external factors such as lack of state commitment with the health system in remote populations of the country.
Conclusion: The existence of community social participation for what was achieved reveals the potential of the interested parties to actively participate in the conceptualization of health and acquire their self-responsibility in care from the social determinants.
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Congreso de la República de Colombia. Ley 1753 de 2015 "Por la cual se expide el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 20142018 "Todos por un nuevo país". Bogotá. 2015 [consultado Feb 10 2017]. Disponible en: http://www.mincit.gov.co/loader.php?lServicio=Documentos&lFuncion=verPdf&id=78676&name=Ley_1753_de_2015.pdf&prefijo=file
Presidente de la Republica de Colombia. Decreto 1757 de 1994. por el cual se organizan y se establecen las modalidades y formas de participación social en la prestación de servicios de salud, conforme a lo dispuesto en el numeral 1del artículo 4 del Decreto-ley 1298. 1994 [consultado Feb 10 2017]. Disponible en: http://www.alcaldiabogota.gov.co/sisjur/normas/Norma1.jsp?i=21850
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