Concepts associated with health from the perspective of sustainable development Conceptos asociados a la salud desde la perspectiva del desarrollo sostenible
subject: Niveles de Consumo, Pobreza, Salud, bienestar social, consumption levels, desarrollo sostenible, ecosistema, ecosystem, health, poverty, social welfare, sustainable development
description: The concept of health is a social construction defined by the historical-cultural contexts of societies. At the moment, this context is characterized by global challenges such as climate change, energy crisis, the north-south divide, and poverty, among others. In view of these challenges, sustainable development has emerged as a proposal to cope with these drawbacks of the Western development model. In this sense, it is plausible to suppose, in accordance with a new global scenario of sustainable development, that a new conception of health is also emerging. For that reason, this paper aims at identifying this renewed concept of health, together with related concepts which are mentioned in the official documents on sustainable development originated in the world summits. Despite the fact that the concepts of health and sustainable development have been understood as being equivalent, none of the aforementioned official documents has provided societies with an explicit concept of health. It was verified that the concept of health has been associated with that of need satisfaction and preservation of ecosystems, whereas the construct of illness is associated with the concepts of poverty and high consumption levels. Finally, it is concluded that health is an intermediate goal of sustainable development and not an end in itself.El concepto de salud es una construcción social definida por los contextos histórico-culturales de las sociedades. Actualmente, dicho contexto está caracterizado por problemas como el cambio climático, la crisis energética, los desequilibrios norte-sur, y la pobreza, entre otros, que llevaron al surgimiento del desarrollo sostenible como una propuesta para afrontar estos defectos del modelo de desarrollo occidental. En ese sentido, es plausible suponer que en el marco de este escenario global con el surgimiento del desarrollo sostenible también esté emergiendo una nueva concepción de la salud. Por esa razón, en este trabajo nos propusimos identif…
creator: Leonardo Alberto Ríos-Osorio, Walter Alfredo Salas-Zapata, Manuel Ortiz-Lobato
source: Saúde e Sociedade
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo
date: 2012
relation: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-12902012000300018
coverage: Public aspects of medicine