Abstract

MATA-OROZCO, Mariela et al. Emerging approaches of epidemiology: a view from the transdisciplinarity. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.2, pp.50-62. ISSN 1690-3293.

Epidemiology has a historical debt to humanity. In this context, new theoretical and epistemological approaches from transdisciplinary and complementarity arises, to address the complex health-disease process, so far dominated by the hegemonic biomedical model of conventional epidemiology, which has generated significant contributions to humanity. However, the complexities announce the need for the conceptual reconfiguration from the conventional epidemiology to emancipatory paths that generate the neohumanism. Knitting or weaving disciplines as possibility of humanity in completeness, that allows overcome the limitation and fragmentation of the subject of their socio-cultural and historical context, which complicates the problem in its fullness, and thus, building solutions is a challenge we must conquer. Critical epidemiology, through the integration of complementary approaches must maintain an epistemological vigilance on the uses and limits of the respective approaches to such techniques, avoiding frozen ahistorical notion of phenomena. Performing the analysis of socio-historical process under the approach to social determination is an obligation, which allows seeing beyond the social determinants associated with c lassical risk factors and individual lifestyles. Finally, there is a need to move from a more complex concept, integrating the social determinants of health, with critical ecology, to the conquest of a good living. Health inequalities can fill the gaps in this way, moving towards transformation and emancipation of human beings in complexus with the planetary life.

Keywords : Conventional and critical epidemiology; transdisciplinarity; social determinants; social determination of health.

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