Objetive:

To Understand the meanings on the health self-care of a group of men belonging to the same family tree in three different generations in the city of Manizales, from an intergenerational analysis.

Materials and methods:

Qualitative study, biographical method from an intergenerational perspective with thematic stories of life carried out between 2015 and 2016. Unit of work: three men of different generations (son, father, grandfather). Unit of analysis: the speeches produced around self-health care.

Results:

The meanings about self-care in health are built around the life experiences of the subjects in the sociocultural framework in which they are immersed. In the analysis of the speeches of the three generations, three nodal axis arouse around practices of conservation or omission of health care: the speeches that remained, the speeches that presented changes, and finally the speeches that were in tension. The discourses that remained in three generations were the object of this study.

Conclusions:

The study allowed demonstrating how, along the different historical moments, meanings and behaviors that have their roots in the culture and that largely permeate the lifestyles adopted by this group of men prevail.

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