The other side of the SIS border: Practices and representations of Missionary Health Managers on the Right to Health in Mercosul

Abstract

This paper aims at sharing insights on how to address social health research carried out by a team of researchers - currently nurses and doctors, who are public health experts - from UNaM while generating a provocation that motivates the discussion of ways to question and produce knowledge about the practices and representations of managers in relation to the right to health. We consider insufficient the positivist, quantitative biomedical look to understand the health phenomenon studied. Only by facing reality critically can we recognize ourselves as subjects capable of building knowledge and transforming possible realities.