BELIEVES IN HEALTH: A CULTURAL APPROACH

Abstract

This work aims to ponder about the meaning of the concept “belief”, within a cultural approach on health. It constitutes in a reflecting about the believes we use to understand and to practice cares on health, in each culture. The family must be considered in this context, since is in it that we learn conducts and we set up ways of being. Within the family we reproduce what were our predecessors, what we are in present and what we will be in future. The family strengths believes and supports the health professional performance. We believe that the articulation with the believes is a way to come close to them we care, since is from understanding those believes that we can be closer to those human beings we want to care: our customers. Therefore, we try do be closer to the diabetic person, through the identification of his believes.

Keywords

• Family
• Health
• Religion and medicine
• Philosophy
• Nursing