Produção Nacional
Representações sociais sobre saúde e doença construídas por índios potiguara
2014; Volume: 8; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5205/1981-8963-v8i8a9979p2736-2745-2014
ISSN1981-8963
AutoresRita de Cássia Cordeiro de Oliveira, Lenilde Duarte de Sá, Antônia Oliveira Silva, Rodrigo Pinheiro de Tolêdo Vianna, Aline Soares de Lima, Annelissa Andrade Virgínio de Oliveira,
Tópico(s)Child Nutrition and Water Access
ResumoObjective: to identify social representations about health and disease construed by the indians Potiguara. Methodology : it is a qualitative study. 55 interviews had been carried out in Baia da Traicao/PB. The corpus was processed by the software Alceste. The research project was approved by the Committee of Ethics in Research, protocol no 05/2008. Results: the Potiguaras’ social representations related to the health/disease process indicate as a whole (66,7%) two dimensions: one, organic-physiological, in which the indians associate health/disease with the biomedic concept; and other, sociocultural that stands for the relationships among work, food and health, responsible for the involvement of the indians in their practices. Conclusion : the importance of the study is demonstrated in the field of public health, since social representations can provide theoretical foundations socially contextualized for the formulation and evaluation of strategies and/or health policies adopted by the responsible institutions for the health of indians in Brazil.
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