Social research, an alternative to redefine the health-disease relationship as a social process

Abstract

The following article has the objective of marking concisely the importance of developing applied investigations in the Public Health Sector, from qualitative methodologies, seeking to understand the relation between health-disease as a social process. To achieve this goal I will briefly describe the relation that has traditionally existed between investigation and the area of health-disease, showing applied investigation as the one that permits dialectic relation between the appearance of the disease and the structural conditions in which it develops, identifying interdisciplinarity as a strategy as the one that allows the replanting of the pertinence of the positivist paradigm that has guided investigation in Health and, finally leave some reflexive considerations expressed referent to the theme.