Health and desease

Documented investigation of retrospective character that has as objective to identify the current state of the art in connection with the academic production with respect to the health and theillness from the perspective of the social representations. It was used like instrument the bibliographical consultation in some databases in access health "on-line", MEDLINE-BIREME, taking advantage of theeasiness and speed for their treatment. The consulted bases were located through Internet and offered with basic describers and search Boolean, to guarantee the certainty in the attainment of thearticles. These were classified - previous translation to Spanish - with base in some variables: year of publication, country, language, complementary theoretical, thematic focus, and emphasis area inthe work, disciplines it bases. The used describers were: health, illness, representations; health, illness, concepts; health, illness, social representations. Was carried out a filter and purifiedselection of the information. This way, 58 works were located whose components show a notable increment of the production as a result starting from the decade of the 90, focused toward the cultural andsocial aspects of the health and the illness, with marked leadership on the part of the psychology and the psychiatry. The nursing production is scarce and limited to the description of concretepathologies with you indexes them theoretical diverse and varied methodologies that demonstrate a hole to discipline. The work only highlights the importance of the investigation of the state of the art,like a tool that allows to the investigator, not to know the up-to-date production, but also the opportunity to have a bigger knowledge in connection with the investigation type, thematic ones and thedevelopment areas, offering the professor a true learning experience that can be shared and lived in a combined way with the students.

Keywords: social representations, health, disease, satate of...