Introduction:

Public Health is a discipline whose guiding principle is the interdisciplinary approach to achieve the organized efforts of societies in the scope of their health-related goals. The practice of nursing with the integration of this approach requires the incorporation of references from disciplines such as sociology and anthropology.

Objective:

To reflect about a proposal for defining and specifying the concept of nursing practice based on a health-related perspective with the integration of sociology and anthropology.

Methods:

A systematized bibliographic review was carried out of nursing theories and models. A classic text was used about this topic, covering the years from 1863 to date. The analysis was incorporated of an interdisciplinary research team, which, as part of a national project, works on the creation of the theoretical proposal that supports the aforementioned practice.

Conclusions:

The proposal of a nursing practice focused on contributing to the organization of societies in order achieve health-related goals requires their definition and argumentation. It must assume the referents of essential disciplines such as anthropology and sociology.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )