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Revista Cubana de Salud Pública
versión impresa ISSN 0864-3466
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HERNANDEZ MELENDREZ, Digna Edelsys et al. Modifying health behaviors through capacity building and social participation. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2014, vol.40, n.2, pp. 255-264. ISSN 0864-3466.
The capacity building is a process that discloses the individual's potentialities to change his/her behavior in the face of various individual or collective problems. The objective of this paper was to show the community work carried out by Cuban and foreign specialists in different parts of the world to build capacities and to encourage social involvement with a view to changing behaviors and facing health problems in the best possible way. This is a sort of summary of the work performed at urban communities in Cuba, Angola and Argentina, respectively, and in two rural populations of Venezuela. This paper was prepared in the period of 2004 through 2012. It dealt with the building of capacities since its conception and detailed the enabling and educational strategies used. In some Angolan communities, particularly in Luanda, the way the AIDS population was coping with the disease was modified as well as the quality of care by the health system personnel to these patients. Furthermore, a valuable experience in Cuba was shown with some women suffering breast cancer since the styles of coping with the disease changed in the patients, their families and the physicians in charge of taking care of them at the community. All the presented experiences have the building of capacities in common through the mobilization of the communities involved regarding the solution of health problems.
Palabras clave : modifying health behaviors; capacity building; social participation.