RESTORING THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF HEALTH CARES IN THE VALLEY OF THE CIMITARRA RIVER: A RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Abstract

The experience of a research proposal of medium term that is currently developing is presented. The purpose, is trying to know the health care in the dynamic, social, economical and political context in which they have determined them in order to contribute to the construction of the health empowering and consideration of the identity of rural population, that in its conformation, different cultural backgrounds and socio-political and economic conditions, product of forced relocation produced by violence have influenced them, and the social and armed conflict that is been developed in the Valley of the Cimitarra River - Colombian Medium Magdalena. The research context is approached and the “route” following is: the construction of the health problems experience, description of the care practices, the traditional agents, traditional resources used for care and the communities’ health expenses. An attempt of triangulation by the complexity of the study phenomenon is set out. The theoretical referents used are the Universality Theory and the diversity of the cultural care, the Medical Sociology and the Critical Medical Anthropology. Methodologically, the quantitative approach is assumed, and
for the collection of information, ethnography techniques and action-research. The interpretative-hermeneutic method is proposed for the analysis of the information.