In general, the studies related to Health have been elaborated mainly by doctors, epidemiologists, hygienist historians, anthropologists and sociologists, who considered mortality and morbidity indicators. In the last decades of the twentieth century, the set of conditions that influence health, that is, demographic, socio-economic, cultural factors and the distribution of health services, gained strength. Along these lines, the scientific contribution of disciplines such as Sociocultural History and Geography, deserve to be incorporated and put into discussion. A common thread that acontributions to be discussed is “access to health”. The objective of this paper is to analyze the background studys as a social and unequal construction. A qualitative methodology focused on the collection and critical review of research related to access to health is used to detect meeting points and differentiating axes.The results show meeting points between the approaches of the subject in question. On the one hand, they question the purely biological nature of the disease, valuing the health-disease-care process as a social construction. On the other hand, they assert that health disparities are a consequence of social differences.Likewise, there are differences in the perspectives for the analysis of access to health following a theoretical trajectory that goes from a restrictive concept to its consideration as an integral category that explains the inequality based on external and internal factors, both of the crossed by the gender perspective.

Author Name: Silvina Mariel Aveni

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Keywords: acces to health; inequality; interdisciplinar

ISSN: 2250-7779

EISSN: 2314-1174

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