• español
    • English
    • português
  • English 
    • español
    • English
    • português
  • IRIS PAHO Home
  • PAHO website
  • Indexes
  • All Collections
  • About IRIS
  • Institutional Memory
  • Our Newsletter
  • Contact
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
View Item 
  •   IRIS PAHO Home
  • 1.PAHO Headquarters / Sede de la OPS
  • Scientific Journals and Newsletters / Revistas Científicas y Boletines
  • Pan American Journal of Public Health
  • View Item
  •   IRIS PAHO Home
  • 1.PAHO Headquarters / Sede de la OPS
  • Scientific Journals and Newsletters / Revistas Científicas y Boletines
  • Pan American Journal of Public Health
  • View Item

Evolución del concepto etnia/raza y su impacto en la formulación de políticas para la equidad

Thumbnail
View/Open
a09v22n6.pdf (87.46Kb)
Date
2007
Author
Torres-Parodi, Cristina
Bolis, Mónica
Metadata
Show full item record

Abstract
Acknowledging the differences between individuals based on their unique identity is a basic requirement for achieving equity. A review of international human rights efforts and the recommendations and declarations of global conferences and regional summits as they redirect policy to battle discrimination shows a positive evolution in the concept of ethnicity/race. This is evident in the transition from using "invisible" differences as an equalizing measure to respecting lifestyle diversity and acknowledging that individuals have a right to be valued for their differences. This evolution in the ethnicity/race concept has been pivotal to building multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual nations in which minority groups are involved in framing equitable health policies and programs. This study covers the time period from 1948 to the present day, identifying four stages in the concept's evolution that coincide with milestones in the political and social relationship between government institutions and ethnic minority groups. The results of these five decades of positive progress is a heightened appreciation for differences, which underlies multiethnic societies and surpasses any one of the tangible benefits received by minority groups. The progress of democratic societies depends heavily on this concept, one that ensure a stronger foundation for future development.(AU)
Translated title
The evolution of the ethnicity/race concept and its impact on framing policies that promote equity
Series
Rev Panam Salud Publica;22(6),dic. 2007
Subject
Derechos Humanos; Prejuicio; Etnia y Salud; Equidad; Revisión; Américas; Human Rights; Prejudice; Ethnic Group and Health; Equity in Health; Literature Review; Americas; Grupos de Populações Continentais; Grupos Étnicos; Política de Saúde; Justiça Social; Direitos Humanos; América Latina; Equidad, Salud y Desarrollo Humano; Equidade, Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano; Equity, Health and Human Development
URI
http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892007001100009
https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/7752
Citation
Torres-Parodi, Cristina,Bolis, Mónica (2007) Evolución del concepto etnia/raza y su impacto en la formulación de políticas para la equidad. Rev Panam Salud Publica;22(6) 405-416,dic. 2007. Retrieved from http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892007001100009
Collections
  • Pan American Journal of Public Health

Related items

Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

  • Thumbnail

    Social determinants and inequalities in tuberculosis incidence in Latin America and the Caribbean 

    Munayco, César V.; Mújica, Oscar J.; León, Francisco X.; del Granado, Mirtha; Espinal, Marcos A. (2015-09)
    Objective. To identify key social determinants of tuberculosis (TB) incidence among countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a geographic area regarded as one of the most socioeconomically unequal in the world. ...
  • Thumbnail

    Health in the Americas, 2007 Edition, v.1 - Regional 

    Pan American Health Organization (2007)
    [From Note to our readers]: The Regional Volume includes an opening chapter that provides an overview of health in terms of the Millennium Development Goals; of the health status continuum—the unfinished agenda, the ...
  • Thumbnail

    Health in the Americas: 2007. v.2 

    Pan American Health Organization (2007)
    [From Note to our readers - v.1]: The Country Volume presents maps of each country and territory, as well as short notices that highlight a specific health challenge and the response of the national health sector to that ...

Browse

All of IRIS PAHOCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsSeries TitleType of materialLanguageCategoryThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsSeries TitleType of materialLanguageCategory

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Pan American Health Organization
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Americas
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037, United States of America
Tel.: +1 (202) 974-3000 Fax: +1 (202) 974-3663
email: libraryhq@paho.org

Links

  • PAHO Featured Publications
  • WHO Digital Library (IRIS)
  • Virtual Health Library (VHL)
  • Global Index Medicus (GIM)