El sentido del riesgo desde la antropología médica: Consonancias y disonancias con la salud pública en dos enfermedades transmisibles.

Abstract

Risk as category of analysis can not be reduced as a numeric probability, as is usually understood in public health. risk is a topic in modern societies that has been constructed as a pivotal issue to allow its technification and management while has acquired specific social meanings within people's social practices. This article seeks to understand the origin and construction the risk as a key concept in epidemiological studies and propose an analysis of two transmissible diseases: rocky mountain spotted fever and HIV-AIDS. both diseases show the complexity to understand the risk due to the visibility of AidS and invisibility of the rocky mountain Spotted fever.

Keywords

• Risk
• epidemiology
• Public Health
• medical Anthropology
• daily Practices.