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F J Menchaca

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PubMed1978

[Toward a renewed definition of health (author's transl)].

With several arguments and testimonies is founded the need for a renewed definition of health. It is offered to the discusion the following project; Health could be conceived as the model of a capacity of vital normatization which allows the person to enjoy his paycophysic harmony in dynamic equilibrium with his natural and social circumstances. The author thinks that at preent time, and humanistic definition like this, could not be easily understood and applied because of power structures and materialistic forces which act on the man of today. Notwithstanding this objetion, moral exigences and a personal feeling of sympathy toward the health matters, push the author to offer this project to the discusion.

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[The pediatrician and social sciences].

The social aspects of child health have been emphasized recently. A better understanding requires of Humanities, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Public Health and Health Sciences. The application of these is requested in the pediatric activities.

Behavioral Sciences↗
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[The pediatrician and social aspects of child health].

Accepted that it is through each pediatrician that pediatrics reaches every child, it is necessary to establish the circumstances which hinder the perception of social factors of disease on account of the actual importance of these factors. The author thinks that our perception of special factors is distorted by circumstances which act on the recruitment, during the medical education, the residency and along the professional life. The following circumstances are remarked: a reedificant scientific technology, the constraints of a manipulated consumption of sofisticated medical resources, a centralization of care in complex hospitals and a medical education which does not prepare for primary and community Medicine. The author recommends the pediatrician to recognize, with the help of an autoreflexive criticism, his failures to perceive clearly the social component of health and disease.

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