Migración interna: representaciones sociales de las prácticas de cuidado de la salud en familias Afrocolombianas

Resumen

The purpose of this research was to understand the social representations about their practices of health care a group of Afro-Colombian families who migrated from the Pacific region of Colombia to the city of Manizales before 2014 was conducted with methodological support in the nonhermeneutic for approach understanding historical references and meanings that guide communication systems around the practices of health care in families. It was investigated by the practices of individual, collective and health care and representations about them. In this regard, the results realize centered care practices meditation and spirituality as sources of personal care and balanced food intake, consumption of traditional potions and family care practices. In the community, few collective actions are performed for garbage collection, water treatment and guardhouse. Finally, health care practices these migrant families use health services only to some strange symptoms. These families identify what practices are health care, but evidence that they are not anchored in their daily lives; ie the fact of having the social representations of care practices do not always translate for them in some effective practices. Moreover, and in particular, found that while women have a social representations of care that if they materialize in care practices, these are aimed at caring for others and not herself.