Synergy between education, prevention, promotion of community health from the sociocultural paradigm

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the synergy between education, prevention and promotion of health conceived as a sociocultural construction mediated by the cultural practices developed by people of a Cuban community during the years 2013-2017. Materials and Methods: Single case study that combines the quantitative and qualitative perspectives of research with the use of participant observation, questionnaires, in-depth interviews in the community setting and the consultation to experts, besides the analytic-synthetic theoretical procedures, as well as induction and deduction. Results: The results reveal the existence of community cultural practices related to health in which a symbiosis between education, prevention and promotion of health as essential elements of the health-disease process is produced. Conclusions: The community context in which the health-disease process takes place is mediated by cultural practices which favors the conception of health as an sociocultural construction inherent to the human activity, which must be guaranteed through education, prevention and promotion of health conceived as an entire integrated system.