A socio-psychological perspective on community participation in health during the Unidad Popular government: Santiago de Chile, from 1970 to 1973. (January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hadjez-Berrios, Esteban
• Other Names: Campbell Catherine guest-editor.; Cornish Flora guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of health psychology. Volume 19:Number 1(2014:Jan.)
• Page Start: 90
• Page End: 96
• Publication Date: 2014-01
• Subjects: Chilean health institutions -- community health psychology -- community participation in health -- history -- Santiago de Chile -- Unidad Popular; Clinical health psychology -- Periodicals; 613.019
• DOI: 10.1177/1359105313500254
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1359-1053

Abstract

Community participation in health has conventionally been described and analysed from a non-historical perspective, neglecting the central role that disadvantaged communities have played in the construction of health institutions in our societies, alienating collective health from its historical subject. From a socio-psychological perspective, this study explores the experiences of community participation in health during the Unidad Popular government in Santiago de Chile from 1970 to 1973, evidencing a radical pedagogical process inside poor urban settlements, aimed to transform Chilean classist health institutions. These findings contribute to a critical understanding of community participation in health, conceived as a dialectic and transformative action.