Abstract

FEO ISTURIZ, Oscar; FEO ACEVEDO, Carlos  and  JIMENEZ, Patricia. The counter-hegemonic thought in health. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.4, pp.602-614. ISSN 0864-3466.

Health and the public health are dominated by an hegemonic thought focused on the care to disease rather than on the health protection. This hegemony has recently placed health into the market by introducing the concept of a privileged scenario for capital accumulation and reproduction. This article analyzed topics such as the right to health, the social determinants of health and the primary health care, in order to prove how these topics are simplified by the hegemonic thought. It also suggested that a counter-hegemonic thought should be encouraged, which will take the statements of the Latin American collective health and social medicine to turn health into a space for the struggle towards a new type of state and a new society.

Keywords : health; public health; social medicine; collective health; counter-hegemonic thought.

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