Resumen

DIAZ BERNAL, Zoe; AGUILAR GUERRA, Tania  y  LINARES MARTIN, Xiomara. Medical anthropology applied to the public health. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2015, vol.41, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0864-3466.

Anthropological approaches in the public health, despite their insufficient extension, are based on the need of interpreting the relationship between the health-disease-care process and culture and the society. After the Second World War, medical anthropology began playing a role and managed to take shape as both a theoretical and practical discipline, with many uses for and by the public health. The objectives of this paper were to argument and to discuss the reasons behind the relevance and applicability of medical anthropology in the public health. To this end, an analytical-critical substantiation on appropriateness and applicability of medical anthropology in the field of public health and on its potential uses was submitted. Regarding Cuba, the insertion of medical anthropology in the field of public health is still inadequate despite its many potential applications. It is then necessary to increase the presence of social sciences in general and of medical anthropology in particular into the curricular formation of the public health sciences as well as the application of its practical approaches in research studies and actions to be developed in this field.

Palabras clave : anthropology; medical anthropology; public health.

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