The X International Colloquium of MARC invites us to rethink healthcare cultures in healthcare
The Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) held its X International Colloquium on 25 and 26 June at Campus Catalunya, an interdisciplinary meeting that proposed joint reflection on the impact and conditioning of cultural factors as configurators of health inequalities, especially in the field of health care.
The title under which the center's activity is raised this year, "Rethinking healthcare cultures in health care", aims to highlight the need to critically reflect on the way in which current health systems integrate or leave out issues such as social and community participation or the humanization of care, as part of the right to daily social justice in health and disease care practices.
The evaluation and creation of new council policies of care guidelines are insufficient as tools for transforming socio-health systems, having to transform their internal structure in their place by analyzing the values, categories, norms, knowledge and institutional routines that determine how a clinical problem is recognized, the legitimacy of the knowledge produced and the social, hierarchical and knowledge relations between professionals, patients and communities. Culture is thus not only a means of exclusion and a barrier to the reach of health justice and equity in healthcare, but an opportunity for its transformation.
The colloquium had four tables and three conferences in which debates focused on equity and participation around care cultures were opened, with researchers and professionals from various fields. The X International Colloquium of the MARC has been proposed one more year as a space for academic and professional debate from which to explore new ways of reflection for the transformation of health systems. In short, it is about understanding care cultures as generators of equity and social justice.
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