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[Health concepts in current science-oriented discourse].

Maria Thereza Avila Dantas Coelho1, Naomar de Almeida Filho

  • 1Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA). mtadc@ufba.br

Historia, Ciencias, Saude--Manguinhos
|November 8, 2002
PubMed
Summary

This study examines health concepts across sociology, anthropology, and epistemology, proposing new primary, secondary, and tertiary health categories to guide positive health policies and social procedures.

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Area of Science:

  • Explores health concepts within functional sociology, anthropology, and epistemology.
  • Analyzes notions of illness, normality, and deviation from labeling patterns.
  • Examines health models in North American health anthropology.

Context:

  • Addresses the duality between culture and society in health perspectives.
  • Evaluates the theory of signal, meaning, and practice systems.
  • Discusses the Canguilhemian distinction between normality and health.

Purpose:

  • To analyze health as a concept in science-oriented discourses.
  • To present and evaluate diverse health models and theoretical frameworks.
  • To propose a new theoretical construction for health policies.

Summary:

  • Sociological perspectives highlight normality, labeling, and deviation.
  • North American health anthropology offers various models, including a new signal, meaning, and practice systems theory.
  • The Canguilhemian concept of health as normative capacity is analyzed.
  • Introduces primary, secondary, and tertiary health concepts.

Impact:

  • Aims to guide health policies and social procedures.
  • Promotes a positive and normative notion of health.
  • Provides a theoretical foundation for understanding and managing health.

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