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Revista Salud Uninorte
Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531
Abstract
DEL POZO SERRANO, Francisco José; BORJA GONZALEZ, Juana; JIMENEZ BAUTISTA, Francisco and POLO AMASHTA, Giselle Paola. Education for health in the Colombian Caribbean: community perceptions of violence in education's contexts for the construction of peace. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2018, vol.34, n.3, pp.715-726. ISSN 0120-5552.
Objective:
To undestand the community perceptions linked to health in the Colombian Caribbean region, in order to understand the diverse problems that affect peace in education environments.
Materials and methods:
Qualitative descriptive study developed in 13 educational institutions of the Colombian Caribbean region. 35 interviews were conducted using the snowball method and 7 focus groups. For the analysis of the data, the content analysis technique was used and they were systematized and processed with NVivo software.
Results:
They focus on the perceptions of the three types of violence linked to health: a) direct violence: negligence and violence in families: care of children and the group, drug use; school coexistence, lack of health, community conflicts; b) structural violence: the need for the right to health as social justice, precariousness in the promotion and prevention of disease, disturbance of peace and, c) cultural violence: centered on the symbolic capacity of the subject, demands for reconsideration of its cultural elements for the benefit of peace building.
Conclusion:
The population studied is in a context of vulnerability, highlighting a need to exercise the right to health and peace. It is necessary an intervention approach from the public policy to generate the co-participation of the community from the recognition of their own culture.
Keywords : Education; health education; prevention and health promotion; violence; peace.