“It is done by walking...” Reflections, considerations and trends regarding health research in Cuadernos FHyCS-UNJu

Abstract

Health practices are not isolated or spontaneous events, they have a development closely related to the economic, political, social and cultural reality of a social group. The importance of analyzing health research productions published in the Journal Cuadernos FHyCS-UNJu is considered in this article. This task involves considering aspects of the past and the present of the health disciplines as a particular field of knowledge. The Health Area was incorporated into the UNJU organigram in 1994, in response to the creation of the Health Education Program, which has promoted the contribution of professors trained in different disciplines, in articulation with students of the career. This constituted a starting point for the increase in publications in this area. In this way, a corpus of ideas was built, where local health issues were addressed, taking as reference theoretical frameworks from the Social and Human Sciences. It is concluded that health research should be considered as an adequate tool to strengthen and evaluate the economic, social, historical and cultural determinants of health, thus enrich regional and national development plans. The Journal Cuadernos FHyCS-UNJu as an organ of dissemination and transfer of knwoledge has adequately contributedto this task.