Entre la violecia y la esperanza: Promoción de la salud en la Costa-Montaña de Guerrero

Abstract

The critical potential of Health Promotion affect the construction of citizenship in so far as power agency capacity of populations, same as with health interventions, acting on the social determinants in the health-illness-care in a region of Mexico that has been exposed to much political neglect in the area of Right to Health. The Costa-Montaña region of Guerrero Mexico has a very critical epidemiological profile infectious, chronic degenerative diseases prevail but are exacerbated in the context of political repression and medical neglect for being a political territory in resistance projects Community Justice indigenous. The creativity of these Promotorias in their educational process is a very interesting experience because it has built organizational health, strength, and medical pluralism without playing subalternity care models.