Movimientos sociales, activismo intelectual y luchas del lugar: conversación con Arturo Escobar, profesor de antropología de la Universidad de North Carolina, Chapel Hill y director del Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de esta misma institución (Entrevista)

Esta conversación fue parte de un video-conferencia entre profesores y estudiantes del doctorado en Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador y Arturo Escobar, el 13 de septiembre de 2006, dentro del marco de discusión planteado en el seminario sobre movimientos sociales titulado: Insurgencias Colectivas en perspectiva Histórico-Mundial.

Why language matters: insights and challenges in applying a social determination of health approach in a North-South collaborative research program

Focus on “social determinants of health” provides a welcome alternative to the bio-medical illness paradigm. However, the tendency to concentrate on the influence of “risk factors” related to living and working conditions of individuals, rather than to more broadly examine dynamics of the social processes that affect population health, has triggered critical reaction not only from the Global North but especially from voices the Global South where there is a long history of addressing questions of health equity. In this article, we elaborate on how focusing instead on the language of “social determination of health” has prompted us to attempt to apply a more equity-sensitive approaches to research and related policy and praxis.