%0 Journal Article
%T La prevenci¨®n en salud: posibilidad y realidad
%A Rodr¨ªguez M¨¦ndez
%A Mariela
%A Echemend¨ªa Tocabens
%A Belkis
%J Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiolog£¿-a
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X introduction: prior studies demonstrate that disease prevention yet it is not to be worthy of the expectancies, mainly concerning actions of psychological guidances developed by health professionals. objective: to think about the necessity of perfecting the preventive chore of the health professionals. methods: to reflect on the need of improve the preventive tasks of health professionals. conclusions: in health professionals there is a favorable attitude to diseases prevention, but it is necessary a greater and better training in the social sciences contributions to medical and health sciences. recommendations: to redefine the concept of prevention of illnesses in the light of the accumulated knowledge and the experiences developed in the social sciences.
%K prevention
%K psychosocial prevention
%K behavior change
%K social representation
%K primary health care.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1561-30032011000100015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en