CRITICAL APPROACH TO THE DECOLONIAL GAZE IN UNIVERSITY WORK: REFLECTIONS FROM COLLECTIVE HEALTH

Abstract

The present work seeks to reflect on the possibilities of practicing a decolonial look, from another
epistemology, to promote the development of a university education with different perspectives
regarding the conception of health. This decolonial action seems a challenge and a contradiction in
itself, because education in general and health education is regulated by regulations and protocols to
follow. However, the possibility of transcending the currently hegemonic biomedical model, centered
on the disease and the subject-object relationship, towards a training centered on health, on the other,
autonomous and different from me, is raised; that incorporates the complexity of the environment and
its diversities, with an emphasis on local views to promote health from the territory, considered in its
broad physical, social, psychological and historical sense.