Food education: health and social cohesion

• Main Author: Eva Zafra Aparici (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 1669-2381; 1851-8265; 10.18294/sc.2017.1191
• Keywords: Educación Alimentaria; Antropología Médica; Participación Social; Política Alimentaria; Factores Culturales; Cambio Social; Medicine; R; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: Salud Colectiva, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp 295-306 (2017)

Using a theoretical-reflexive approach, this article connects the results of various qualitative studies in social conflict and medical anthropology, in order to investigate how food can be a tool for social transformation in terms of health but also in terms of the dialogue, respect and coexistence among people, groups and communities. In this sense the article presents a first approximation to a new theoretical and methodological approach to food education. In this approach, food adopts a political, sociocultural and participatory perspective that brings us closer to an innovative understanding of the phenomenon of food: not only as an analytic and diagnostic tool, but also as an instrument for health education interventions toward conflict resolution and the promotion of healthier societies overall - nutritionally, but also in terms of equality and social cohesion.