Social representation and recovery of health inpatients with kidney transplant

Abstract

Introduction: The process of recovery of health from the perspective of the World Health Organization. Objective: To put forward aspects that make social representations a necessary and viable category to understand the recovery of health inpatients with kidney transplant. Method: A search was conducted between September 2017 and July 2018 on categories such as social representation, health, subjectivity, cognition and well-founded theory. Documents published between 2003 and 2018 were used, almost all articles consulted online are from the last five years. Google Academic search engine was used for the digital search, which facilitated links with databases and institutions. Development: An analysis of social representations and their interrelation with subjectivity and social cognition within the health-disease process was conducted, providing elements that sustain and reaffirm health as an integral fact that goes beyond the prevailing model centered on the functional organic aspect. All of this was seen from the qualitative paradigm and, particularly, from the grounded theory. Conclusions: The validity and viability of these categories is asserted to understand the complex phenomenon of health in the transplanted patient.