Aproximaciones epistemológicas a la salud mental comunitaria e intersecciones con la fisioterapia

Abstract

This article proposes a comprehensive understanding of mental health that goes beyond the traditional biomedical approach and integrates the social, cultural, and political dimensions that shape the experience of health and illness. By broadening the analysis to include the health conditions of communities and the ways in which these are addressed, physiotherapy and its object of study—human movement—gain relevance. Human movement manifests in diverse ways depending on people’s life stories, experiences, knowledge, and relationships. These bodily expressions may reflect both needs and potentialities, contributing to the promotion of individual and collective well-being and to the construction of a more just society. This perspective entails an ethical-political commitment to the recognizing health as a right and highlighting the need to develop interventions that address individual, group, and collective dimensions, while articulating with both operational and strategic approaches.