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ARAUJO GONZALEZ, Rafael. Vulnerabilidad y riesgo en salud: ¿dos conceptos concomitantes?Vulnerability and health risk: two concomitant concepts?. Rev Nov Pob [online]. 2015, vol.11, n.21, pp. 89-96. ISSN 1817-4078.

This paper aims to contrast the increasing use of the term vulnerability in the social sciences in the last 15-20 years regarding the health sciences; while in the latter, emphasis on the use of the concept of risk as an integral part of its theoretical and methodological apparatus is made. A literature review was performed in order to analyze in the literature the use of the concepts of social and socio-demographic vulnerability respectively, and compared to their uses in the health sciences. The vulnerability is thus a useful approach for examining different aspects of reality. In fact, different looks and views about it are used in the literature in different areas of science such as law, food security, macroeconomics, natural disaster prevention and public health. But it is in the latter, especially in the analysis of the health of populations, would acquire the issue of vulnerability of particular importance. Although the problem of vulnerability of individuals, social groups or populations should play for studies in health a special role, as part of the essence of the main problems of health, health sciences spend much more to the determination of risk own of positivist approach, that a searching or explanation of the social causes that make people and populations vulnerable.

Palavras-chave : health; risk; vulnerability.

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