Castro-Pérez R
Universidad de Toronto, Ontario, Canadá.
Salud Publica Mex. 1992 Nov-Dec;34(6):670-7.
A discussion is given on the most important criteria which should guide the selection of medical sociology's contents which should be taught to public health students. It is suggested that in the current national context, the teaching of sociology in public health should be guided by three objectives: a) to train public health specialists capable of analyzing and criticizing their social reality; b) to disseminate the main findings achieved through social research in public health, concerning mainly the social determination of both the health illness process and the provision of health services; and c) to train public health students to face social changes currently taking place in this country which soon will make evident their effects on the distribution of health and illness in the population. The relevance of linking the teaching of medical sociology in public health with actual research is pointed out. The need to carry out sociological research on the actual current conditions in which social sciences in public health are taught in Mexico and Latin America is stated. It is emphasized the importance of including within this teaching the variety of dilemmas and polemics which have resulted as a consequence of the incorporation of sociology into health matters. The article concludes by emphasizing the need to show the multiparadigmal character of sociology and the consequences of this fact in the study of public health.
本文讨论了指导公共卫生专业学生医学社会学教学内容选择的最重要标准。建议在当前国情下，公共卫生领域的社会学教学应遵循三个目标：a）培养能够分析和批判社会现实的公共卫生专家；b）传播通过公共卫生社会研究取得的主要成果，主要涉及健康疾病过程和卫生服务提供的社会决定因素；c）培养公共卫生专业学生应对本国当前正在发生的社会变革，这些变革很快将凸显其对人群健康与疾病分布的影响。指出了将公共卫生领域的医学社会学教学与实际研究相联系的相关性。提出有必要对墨西哥和拉丁美洲公共卫生领域社会科学教学的实际现状进行社会学研究。强调在这一教学中纳入因社会学融入卫生事务而产生的各种困境和争议的重要性。文章最后强调有必要展现社会学的多范式特征以及这一事实在公共卫生研究中的影响。
