Colombo Mac Guire GB. [An alternative model of health sciences in relation to women].
REVISTA DE SANIDAD E HIGIENE PUBLICA 1993;
67:447-54. [PMID:
7732311]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
The purpose of this article is to present an alternative medical model to the hegemonic model, from the point of view of gender. Gender is believed as a socio-cultural construction defining men and women ways of behaving in society at a definite historical time. Gender consideration in epidemiologic analysis, together with other social variables, constitutes a new approach in the knowledge of women practices. Gender values are the basis to transform social relations and health care within the health system. The position I show includes a macrosocial level: the State and social politics, and a microsocial level: woman and her connection with the doctor in her daily life scope.
METHODS
A content analysis of the compiled bibliography was carried out from the point of view of gender. A Primary Health Care Center belonging to a marginal district in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentine was taken as reference.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS
As result of this study, a woman care typology, emphasizing the differences between an hegemonic medical model and an alternative model, was elaborated. In the same way, concepts, which may be a guide in the construction of an alternative model to the hegemonic one, are handled.
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