Percepciones del proceso salud-enfermedad de las comunidades afrodescendientes de medellín 2009-2010.

Nancy Eliana Gallo Restrepo; Yeison Arcadio Meneses Copete; Carlos Minotta Valencia

doi:10.30554/archmed.14.2.261.2014

Perceptions of afrodescendant communities from Medellin about the health-illness process; 2009-2010

Percepciones del proceso salud-enfermedad de las comunidades afrodescendientes de medellín 2009-2010.

Published 2014-12-14

https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.14.2.261.2014

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Gallo Restrepo, N. E., Meneses Copete, Y. A., & Minotta Valencia, C. (2014). Perceptions of afrodescendant communities from Medellin about the health-illness process; 2009-2010. Archivos De Medicina , 14(2), 210-218. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.14.2.261.2014

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Gallo Restrepo, N. E., Meneses Copete, Y. A., & Minotta Valencia, C. (2014). Perceptions of afrodescendant communities from Medellin about the health-illness process; 2009-2010. Archivos De Medicina , 14(2), 210-218. https://doi.org/10.30554/archmed.14.2.261.2014

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Nancy Eliana Gallo Restrepo

Psicóloga, especialista en contextualización psicosocial. Candidata a magister en epidemiología. Investigadora grupo de investigación en salud mental - gisame - de la facultad nacional de salud pública de la universidad de antioquia.

Yeison Arcadio Meneses Copete

Etno-educador y activista afrocolombiano. Licenciado en lenguas modernas, especialista en enseñanza del inglés y magister en educación en la línea: maestro-pensamiento-formación. Investigador activista colectivo ampliado de estudios afrodescendientes, cadeafro. Docente de cátedra de la universidad de antioquia

Carlos Minotta Valencia

Psicólogo de la universidad de antioquia. Investigador activista colectivo ampliado de estudios afrodescendientes, cadeafro.

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Nancy Eliana Gallo Restrepo,

Psicologa, especialista en contextualización psicosocial y candidata a magister en epidemiología de la Universidad de Antioquia.

Yeison Arcadio Meneses Copete,

Etno-educador y activista afrocolombiano. Licenciado en lenguas modernas, especialista en enseñanza del inglés y magister en educación en la línea: maestro-pensamiento-formación. Investigador activista colectivo ampliado de estudios afrodescendientes, cadeafro. Docente de cátedra facultad de educación de la universidad de antioquia y docente de la institución educativa enrique vélez escobar

Carlos Minotta Valencia,

Psicólogo de la universidad de antioquia. Investigador activista Colectivo ampliado de estudios Afrodescendientes, cadeafro.

Afro-descendant population

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To Identify perceptions about the process of health-illness of afrodescendant communities from Medellin (Colombia). Materials and methods: Materials and Methods: Sampling: Theory and convenience. This research followed the descriptive exploratory type of study. There were carried out 13 focus group discussions, 10 interviews with scholars from communities and 6 communitary workshops. Results: A relationship between disease and banishment was found. Expulsion increases illness in the psycho-social dimension; in this way hurting besides being rooted in the body, its branches become into mental and socio-affectionate affections. For instance, when a person is forced to renounce to the millenarian symbolic universe that the interment and
novena of a loved person encompass. Violence against women and problems of child development as major outbreaks of disease are reported. The disease management is through cure with secret (bewitched). Conclusion: A low knowledge was found in the afrodescendant population regarding health rights and the enforceability of personal and collective way. It was also found that, communities have systems of personal and communitarian healing, where through syncretism between Catholicism and paganism diseases are faced. Besides that, a high credibility is observed in these healing practices. According to the study, women report being victims of violence in families Vand at the same time are the boost for the care and health practices in the community and in their families. The cultural transmission of secret cure fades away in time, it has within itself, forms of hierarchy, also becoming a community asset only for some.

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