Abstract

HUINAO TRANACAN, Marcela; MONTECINOS DURAN, Constanza; MUNOZ MUNOZ, Carmen  and  VALENZUELA SOTO, Daniela. Health-Disease-Attention of major persons who live in ruralidad in the south of Chile. Investig. desarro. [online]. 2017, vol.25, n.1, pp.49-72. ISSN 0121-3261.  https://doi.org/10.14482/indes.25.1.10230.

Abstract This study explores and describes how elderly people living in the Riñinahue area in the south of Chile live ageing, perceive their health and illness and were acquainted with hegemonic medicine. It also reports how religious beliefs and a particular cosmovision influence this, and how this is associated to a lifestyle, the work, the self-sustenance and the hard life. Using in-depth interviews to six elderly people, analyzed from an oral history methodology, illness and suffering are distinguished. This is related to forms of life that belong in rurality and a structure of values that positions autonomy, freedom and occupation as ways to achieve wellbeing, associated to the territory and to a particular economic and social matrix. The paper concludes about the relevance of analyzing the needs of human beings in the light of their own historical-territorial and social particularities, over standardizing of publicpolicy.

Keywords : Rural areas; rural health; health-disease process; health care (public health); aged.

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