A look at health from an anthropological perspective

Abstract

Introduction:Anthropology as a science provides health workers with guidelines for the development of research activity and scientific tools to determine the characteristics of a given social environment in which they perform their work. Objective: Anthropological analysis of health, the relationship between the health-disease-care process and society. Materials and methods: A documentary research of ethnographic type, descriptive level was used. Results: The influence of anthropology includes the health-illness-care trinomial, as a universal element and the study of the biological, psychological, cultural and social dimensions, where its object of study is framed in the analysis of the different systems of beliefs and practices in the field of health, as well as the process of health, illness and care. Conclusion: It provides a new perspective of analysis, relevance and application of anthropology in its relationship with public health, as well as an analytical-critical evaluation in society and its potential uses, highlighting the critical perspective of different researchers of anthropological science.