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- Title
Desigualdades en salud: nuevas perspectivas teóricas.
- Authors
de Almeida-Filho, Naomar
- Abstract
This article, I intend to articulate the theoretical problem of economic and social inequalities with the issue of the social determination of health. Initially, I provide a summary of Rawls' and Sen's theories of justice and equity as an illustration of the dominant perspective in Northern epistemologies. Second, I discuss applications of this theoretical framework in the literature on social inequalities and the social determination of health-illness-care. Thirdly, I present a semantic matrix proposed for the differencedistinction- inequality-inequity-iniquity series to help reduce the existing terminological confusion. Next, I introduce a synthetic theoretical model about the poverty-inequality dyad, referring to the concepts of social resources, health practices, health services, and health situation/conditions. Finally, oriented by an epistemological perspective from the global South, and taking the current Brazilian situation as a case study, I discuss political implications of the complex contemporary conjuncture, pertinent to the hypothesis that a process of transformation of economic inequalities into new forms of social inequities and health iniquities is currently underway.
- Subjects
EQUALITY; SOCIAL problems; DEVELOPING countries; SOCIAL constructionism; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Salud Colectiva, 2020, Vol 16, p1
- ISSN
1669-2381
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18294/sc.2020.2751