Educate on the proper use of medications: Anthropological perspectiva and challenges
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https://doi.org/10.5377/recsp.v6i1.16514Keywords:
Cultural anthropology, Communities, Health education, Health policy, Medical drugsAbstract
Medicines constitute a thing with a social life. Medicines evolve parallel to cultural, scientific, technological, and global health advances. The generation and use of medicines respond to the social dynamics of spatiotemporal and cultural contexts. This paper discusses medicines’ current social and cultural positioning from an anthropological perspective. Highlighting the presence of medicines in art, music, literature, advertising, and social media, aims to call for implementing health policies that promote the proper use of medicines and related products such as dietary and herbal supplements. Giving the entire population access to health education would guarantee good practice in the use of medicines. Educating for health demands a transversal analysis between knowledge of different social actors to restore the universality of the health concept. We discuss some necessary elements of this analysis in the final sections.
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