La llamada por la vida: necesidades de cuidado urgente en la casa

ABSTRACT: To identify situations when people request urgent home care. Methodology: the ethnographic approach was used. The information was gathered with interviews and observations of adult people that received urgent attention at home, in the city of Medellín-Colombia between January of 2005 and December of 2006. Results and discussion: the people call to request urgent help when they suffer a circumstance and a necessity. Circumstance, is the event of health that alters the daily life, added to critical situations in the surroundings like self diagnosis and emotion. Necessities are individual and ask for immediate help when the circumstance looks urgent. The necessities found in this study were to have company; security, transport and tranquility. Conclusions: the situations that push the people to request non programmed help from their house are health events that alter daily life. The circumstances and necessities are individual matters that require of that the health services provider discover and solve them.

• Autores: Lopera Betancur, Martha Adiela
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2008
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/5081
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/5081
• Palabra clave: Atención de urgencias en casa; Necesidades de cuidado urgente; Conocimiento en salud; attention of emergency at home needs of urgency care; Knowledge in health
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/