This volume contributes to the debate on health among young people, which is important in the social sciences in general and in particular to medical anthropology, due to the number of different elements that are involved in the processes of health, illness and healthcare among young people, and the sophisticated relations between them. The debate is also important because it has public implications; that is, health policies aimed at young people need to be based less on prejudice, stigma and contemporary social alarmism, and much more on a rigorous knowledge of the various realities that configure relations between young people and health.
Con este volumen se contribuye al debate en torno a la salud de los jóvenes, que es relevante dentro de las ciencias sociales en general y de la antropología médica en particular, debido a la cantidad de elementos distintos que están implicados en los procesos de salud, enfermedad y atención de las poblaciones jóvenes, y de las sofisticadas relaciones existentes entre ellos. Asimismo también es un debate relevante porque tiene implicaciones públicas: las políticas de salud de los jóvenes tienen que estar basadas menos en prejuicios, estigmas o alarmismos sociales mas o menos coyunturales, y mucho más en un conocimiento riguroso y situado de las tan distintas realidades que configuran el campo de relaciones entre salud y jóvenes. This volume contributes to the debate on health among young people, which is important in the social sciences in general and in particular to medical anthropology, due to the number of different elements that are involved in the processes of health, illness and healthcare among young people, and the sophisticated relations between them. The debate is also important because it has public implications; that is, health policies aimed at young people need to be based less on prejudice, stigma and contemporary social alarmism, and much more on a rigorous knowledge of the various realities that configure relations between young people and health.