%0 Journal Article
%T Concepts associated with health from the perspective of sustainable development Conceptos asociados a la salud desde la perspectiva del desarrollo sostenible
%A Leonardo Alberto R赤os-Osorio
%A Walter Alfredo Salas-Zapata
%A Manuel Ortiz-Lobato
%J Sa迆de e Sociedade
%D 2012
%I Universidade de S?o Paulo
%R 10.1590/s0104-12902012000300018
%X The concept of health is a social construction defined by the historical-cultural contexts of societies. At the moment, this context is characterized by global challenges such as climate change, energy crisis, the north-south divide, and poverty, among others. In view of these challenges, sustainable development has emerged as a proposal to cope with these drawbacks of the Western development model. In this sense, it is plausible to suppose, in accordance with a new global scenario of sustainable development, that a new conception of health is also emerging. For that reason, this paper aims at identifying this renewed concept of health, together with related concepts which are mentioned in the official documents on sustainable development originated in the world summits. Despite the fact that the concepts of health and sustainable development have been understood as being equivalent, none of the aforementioned official documents has provided societies with an explicit concept of health. It was verified that the concept of health has been associated with that of need satisfaction and preservation of ecosystems, whereas the construct of illness is associated with the concepts of poverty and high consumption levels. Finally, it is concluded that health is an intermediate goal of sustainable development and not an end in itself. El concepto de salud es una construcci車n social definida por los contextos hist車rico-culturales de las sociedades. Actualmente, dicho contexto est芍 caracterizado por problemas como el cambio clim芍tico, la crisis energ谷tica, los desequilibrios norte-sur, y la pobreza, entre otros, que llevaron al surgimiento del desarrollo sostenible como una propuesta para afrontar estos defectos del modelo de desarrollo occidental. En ese sentido, es plausible suponer que en el marco de este escenario global con el surgimiento del desarrollo sostenible tambi谷n est谷 emergiendo una nueva concepci車n de la salud. Por esa raz車n, en este trabajo nos propusimos identificar el concepto de salud, y los conceptos asociados a 谷sta, que se encuentran en los documentos oficiales del desarrollo sostenible que han surgido en las diferentes cumbres mundiales. Aunque se pudo inferir que los conceptos de salud y desarrollo sostenible son equivalentes, en ninguno de estos documentos se encontr車 un concepto expl赤cito de salud. As赤 mismo, se observ車 que el concepto de salud est芍 asociado con el de satisfacci車n de necesidades y cuidado de los ecosistemas, mientras que el de enfermedad est芍 asociado a los conceptos de pobreza y elevados niveles de consumo. Finalmente, se
%K Desarrollo Sostenible
%K Salud
%K Pobreza
%K Bienestar Social
%K Niveles de Consumo
%K Ecosistema
%K Sustainable Development
%K Health
%K Poverty
%K Social Welfare
%K Consumption Levels
%K Ecosystem
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