Servicios de salud en Ecuador, entre lo biológico, cultural y social

Abstract:

The article intends to show the relationship among two components of the Ecuadorian constitution of 2008: the ancestral “Sumak Kawsay” principles of Well Being and the National Health System, the first one equivalent to health as best quality of life or welfare based on satisfaction of individual, cultural and social needs, and the second the adequacy of the system to such a principles. The relationship was studied through a qualitative survey with health professionals in rural and urban southern Ecuadorian populations. It was founded that biomedicine was not coordinated with Primary Health Care, neither with the ancestral principles, so the State had not already an adequate health system. The conclusion established that there is not a relationship among biological, cultural and social issues. There are only protocols for the clinical issues but not for the cultural and social ones, as protocols were only for clinical purposes, but not for cultural and social cases. The system is not yet integrated with such issues.

Año de publicación:

2013

Keywords:

• Evaluacion De Necesidades
• BUEN VIVIR
• sumak kawsay
• SERVICIOS DE SALUD
• calidad de vida
• atención primaria de salud

Fuente:

rraae