Marcos conceptuales en salud pública. Modelos, paradigmas o propuestas disciplinarias

Abstract

This article include a review and critical-reflexive analysis on character of paradigm, model or disciplinary proposal that have the different frameworks which have been developed for the study of health- disease process and health systems. It includes the following proposals: sanitary, biomedical, classical epidemological, higyenist-preventive, ecologist, social epidemiological, hystorical-materialism sociomedical and neoconservative sociomedical. For each one the review includes: perspective of analysis, hypothesis, labels, advantages, limits, era and authors. It the same time It consider that the main object of analysis to the public health are: the health-disease conditions and the way that each social group organize the resources in order to response their health needs.