Volumen 32 No. 2 (2014)

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    Contaminación del aire exterior. Cuenca - Ecuador,2009 - 2013. Posibles efectos en la salud
    (Universidad de Cuenca. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, 2014-09) Palacios Espinoza, Elvira del Carmen; Espinoza Molina, Claudia
    Urban air pollution is a public health problem that affects mostly children and the elderly; it is associated with asthma, eye irritation, headache, cardiovascular diseases,and lung cancer. In order to know about the air quality of the Cuenca city, and its possible health effects, the data reported by the Monitoring of the Municipality, the WHO guidelines Air Quality Standard Environment of Ecuador were analyzed; mortality statistics and scientific evidence on health effects were also reviewed.
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    Paradigmas de investigación en salud
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2014-09) Palacios Espinoza, Elvira del Carmen
    Introduction: The need to generate knowledge has different times in history. Health can be summarized in three models: a) logical-positivist or empirical-analytical , b ) symbolic-interpretative, c ) critical or dialectical . In order to review the alternatives and the model that suits the needs of research in health and environment, an analysis of secondary sources is performed. Development: In health research prevailing positivist logic model and less interpretive symbolic. The critical or dialectical paradigm recognizes health as a complex object with multiple dimensions. Health and environment understanding the historical movement of nature with it socio- ecosystem and forms of artificiality, protective and destructive factors, the relationship between collective and individual processes is necessary. The dialectical approach opens opportunities for triangulation of methods and contributions from diverse cultures to knowledge. Conclusion: The critical or dialectical paradigm allows a comprehensive approach to the problems of health and environment through which is made visible to the biology of the human being is subsumed context and is modified by the environment that is socially determined and historically constructed