Redes sociales, apoyo social y salud

In recent years the social environment has been recognized as a structural,
cultural, interpersonal and psychologically complex system with adaptive and
adjustment properties in situations related to the processes of health and disease
and also as a system which contains stressful and buffer elements.
It justifies an increasing interest towards the resources derived from the individual
social bonds as well as the interpersonal relations and the health of the people.
Thus, concepts like “social networks”, “systems of community support”, “social
support” or “resources of the environment”, have been key concepts for the
development of the theoretical lines that have guided the investigations that relate
the social networks and health.
This article, elaborated in the framework of the doctorate studies, attempts to be
an approach to the conceptual and empirical development, from the anthropological
and public health viewpoint.