Vida cotidiana y estrategias familiares en salud en el contexto de la pobreza urbana.

El caso de las mujeres del barrio Inta

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the conceptions, experiences and actions of poor women concerning health problems they or other family members suffer. The cultural meanings of being healthy or sick are part of the historical and social proceses in which the women's collective subjectivity as members of the popular urban sectors is shaped, and in which they themselves act as subjects. This study focuses on the experience of these women in undergoing health problems and the strategies that they develop to face this experience. In this way we attempt to connect/relate the experiences and strategies of these women to the conditions in which they live out their daily lives and to the barrio context in which they live. The data comes from a larger study financed by the University of Buenos Aires on the links between living conditions, family strategies in health, and health/illness processes. The field work was carried out in a slum/ shanty town in the Federal Capital -barrio Inta- and included two stages. In the first a survey was administered, and in the second, in-depth interviews were carried out.