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Este artículo tuvo por objetivo situar la estrategia de Agentes Comunitarios de Salud adoptada recientemente en Chile como una intervención que podría contribuir a cerrar las brechas en salud. Para ello, empleamos como herramienta analítica la noción de participación de la sociedad civil, a menudo olvidada en los debates que contraponen los sistemas público y privado en el análisis de la salud. Al examinar esta iniciativa bajo el lente de la educación popular en Brasil, argüimos que esta forma de participación no puede plantearse como una intervención tecnocrática más, sino situarla en contexto, social e históricamente, donde la sensibilidad cultural es clave. En Chile, la participación ciudadana en salud tiene una larga tradición instalada y, en virtud de una reapropiación los discursos públicos en la última década, el aspecto agencial popular podría articularse e institucionalizarse.(AU)

O objetivo deste artigo foi situar a estratégia dos Agentes Comunitários de Saúde recentemente adotada no Chile como uma intervenção que poderia contribuir para fechar as lacunas na saúde. Para tanto, empregamos como ferramenta analítica a noção de participação da sociedade civil, frequentemente negligenciada nos debates que opõem os sistemas público e privado na análise da saúde. Ao examinar essa iniciativa por meio das lentes da educação popular no Brasil, argumentamos que essa forma de participação não pode ser vista como apenas mais uma intervenção tecnocrática, mas deve ser colocada em um contexto cultural e histórico, no qual a sensibilidade cultural é fundamental. No Chile, a participação cidadã na saúde tem uma longa tradição e, em virtude de uma reapropriação dos discursos públicos na última década, a agência popular pôde ser articulada e institucionalizada.(AU)

The purpose of this article is to situate the Community Health Agents strategy as a social intervention that may contribute to bridging the gap in health coverage. In doing this, we used the participation of nonprofit civil society as an analytical tool. Civil society is often neglected in debates about health, which tend to focus the analysis solely on the antagonism between public and private services. By examining this strategy through the lens of popular education in Brazil, we argue that this form of participation cannot be viewed as merely another technocratic solution, but should instead be understood within its cultural and historical context, emphasizing the importance of cultural sensitivity. Civil society's participation in health matters has a longstanding history in Chile. Considering the reappropriation of public debates over the past decade, the agential aspect of this intervention could be articulated and potentially institutionalized.(AU)

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In South America, the 1970s began with ardent sociopolitical crises leading to a wave of repressive military regimes. In Chile, most professional bodies suffered profound structural and functional modifications resulting from internal political polarization as well as state intervention. Nurses saw the same fate befall them, which created both a historical blackout and abrupt changes in power dynamics. Given the prominence of this process in the reconfiguration of modern nursing's identity, this article traces the association's political process during the short-lived 1970s Marxist-inspired government and the response of nurses collectively to the rapid shift into a repressive regime leading to a profound internal crisis and an identity break-up within nursing. By using archival sources and oral testimonies1 of 1970s and 1980s nurses, we reconstruct a historical account of a key period in the history of the country that for the nurses meant a progression of discord and division along with a self-imposed silence on the past. In so doing, the article adds to a growing literature on the participation of women in political life.

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Nursing is possible owing to a series of intricate systemic relations. Building on an established tradition of sociological research, we critically analysed the nursing profession in Chile, with an emphasis on its education system, in the light of social systems theory. The paper's aim was to explore basic characteristics of nursing education as a system, so as to outline its current evolution. Drawing on recent developments in nursing, we applied an empirical framework to identify and discuss functionally differentiated systems that are relevant to nursing and observe communications between them. We found that the dynamics of nursing as a whole develop from communications with closely related systems, including the nursing profession and the education system more broadly. While the discipline (as a system of representations) strives to control the profession (as an applied occupational field), the necessities of practicing nurses imply other forces mediating the making of the profession, a process framed by market dynamics in education and health.

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For over 20 years, the notion of 'management of care' has been foregrounded as key in the jurisdiction of the nursing profession, with the aim of detaching itself from the wider medical umbrella. A number of voices have advocated such centrality. These include juridical, academic and occupational perspectives. Critical stances, although peripheral, have also been voiced. These have been received, at best, with a 'polite silence' in mainstream circles.By looking at the arguments surrounding the 'management of care' circulated in these two decades, this article reports the various forms of discursive practice that participate in the political process of autonomy building. Particularly, we focus on the validity of the arguments as well as the cohesion across arguments within the knowledge system. In doing so, we evaluate its main premises and foundations, the reach of the conceptualisation and its disjointed, differing and incomplete bases. Similarly, we used an inferential technique for the reconstruction of omitted and unexpressed assertions.The article introduces an approach of the humanities that is seldom seen in healthcare. It also proposes a research agenda in regard to management of care for the upcoming decades.

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This study reports the process of cultural adaptation of the Caring Behaviors Assessment tool for the Spanish language, and determine its validity and reliability. We used a mixed-methods approach with a sample of adult participants after translation and adjustment, correlations and multiple regressions were used to explain differences in perception. Internal consistency and reliability were determined by using Cronbach's alpha. While slight modifications to syntax, language, and the interval scale were necessary to enable better comprehension, all items had high average scores as did the seven subscales. Additionally, similarities with previous literature suggest cultural suitability of the instrument across countries. This version of the tool was judged to be valid and reliable, and will facilitate care measurability and theoretical sensitivity in Spanish-speaking countries.

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Histories of nursing that disregard their linkage to broader historical movements often lead to historically detached versions of nursing identity that omit the perspective of their sources and the ideas of their time. Drawing on materials retrieved through a multilayered research strategy comprising internal and external sources, this article examines the development of a nursing identity in Chile during the period starting in the 1950s through the early 2000s. We analysed the sociopolitical contexts in which the nursing profession grew, the changing direction of its role and how the nursing identity transformed itself. Through the use of historical sources and oral testimonies, we aim to give a nuanced account of how the history of public health and that of the country more broadly changed the object of identification of nurses, creating only relatively recently a sense of nursing community. Processes of identification, fragmentation and integration are highlighted, which challenge usual notions of history as a linear process.

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BACKGROUND: The discussion of teaching and learning in nursing has been prolific. Whereas most of the debate tends to focus on core contents of nursing programmes, little has been discussed about the teaching in 'supporting subjects' with relevance to both nursing education and nursing practice. This article offers a perspective on sociology scholarship for applied professions by using the case of nursing programmes. METHODOLOGY: Syllabus is a rich source of data, and in its representational capacity it becomes both a discursive construction and a vehicle of ideology. Accordingly, we present a Critical Discourse Analysis of syllabi of nursing schools in Chile as to identify core contents and ideologies, and implied challenges for nursing education. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION: We argue that while the syllabus as a discourse discloses a significant cleavage, the biggest challenge is precisely to challenge the ideologies constructed by and embedded in the syllabi. Our reflection thus points to a better interdisciplinary dialogue as to enhance the actual contribution of sociology to nursing.

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Seis años atrás apareció en este mismo medio una propuesta desde el interior de la enfermería académica, que sugería el desarrollo -y aun la preexistencia- de un situs ocupacional de enfermería. Siguiendo este concepto, la enfermería podría tomar distancia de la dominación médica e instalar un situs propio de enfermería, con las enfermeras en la cúspide de la estructura y otras ocupaciones asociadas en posiciones subalternas. Esta proposición, aunque muy prometedora, no logró despertar mayor discusión en las revistas del rubro. En parte, esta omisión puede ser resultado de que al tratarse de un concepto de limitado interés empírico, aun para la sociología de las profesiones (desde donde proviene), el situs ocupacional se ha enmohecido en el olvido. En el presente artículo tendré como objetivo el argumentar por qué los conceptos de situs y situs ocupacional, además de tener poca utilidad hoy en día, no son aplicables en la conformación de un 'situs de enfermería' La estratificación de categorías ocupacionales es un fenómeno mucho más complejo que meramente disponer lo que un grupo de profesiones 'debería' incluir o dejar fuera, por lo que sugiero su inoperatividad en la recomposición de estructuras profesionales. Representaciones contemporáneas sobre la estratificación social en el trabajo son mejor descritas a través del análisis del funcionamiento de credenciales académicas y, sobre todo, de las relaciones sistémicas a través de las cuales las profesiones tienen influencias mutuas, tanto en sus campos de práctica como en la construcción de narrativas profesionales.

Six years ago, there appeared in this same journal a proposal from the field of academic nursing, suggesting the development or even the pre-existence of an occupational situs of nursing. By using this concept, nursing could take distance from medical dominance and establish its own occupational situs, meaning that nurses would be on top of the structure and subordinate occupations on lower levels. Although promising, this proposal did not persuade other researchers into developing a debate in related journals. This omission may be partly due to the fact that, given its empirical limitations even for the sociology of professions (where the concept originates), the concept of occupational situs has fallen into oblivion. In this article I discuss why concepts such as situs and occupational situs, besides their limited usefulness today, are no longer applicable to the conformation of a 'nursing situs.' The stratification of occupational categories is much more complex than merely deciding what a group of professions should include or not include; I thus suggest the ineffectiveness of the concept in setting up professional structures. Contemporary representations of social stratification in different occupations are best described by analysing the role of academic credentials and, especially, the systemic relations through which professions develop mutual influence both in their practical fields and in the construction of professional narratives.

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BACKGROUND: The evolution of nursing education into an academic curriculum and the growing interest of men in nursing have been significant landmarks in the development of a 'female' occupation. Chilean nursing is considered as the leading example of nursing education in Latin America, demanding a five-year training on a full-time university programme. The consequences of education, however, are assumed as more egalitarian opportunities, disregarding the latent replication of structures that perpetuate inequalities. OBJECTIVE: To comprehend the socialisation of male nursing students and its relation with their masculine identity and the construction of inequalities in nursing education. METHODS: We draw upon interviews undertaken with beginner and advanced nursing students from a Chilean university. Approval was obtained from the relevant Ethics Committee. The data were organised to allow the development of concepts by using the Grounded Theory approach. RESULTS: The analysis uncovers paradoxical results of nursing education and its ineffectiveness in preventing gender-based inequalities. The interest in empowering nursing politically may lead to favour an increasing number of men entering nursing in ways that facilitate male students' progress. Furthermore, there exist discourses of compassion that feed consideration for male students, engendering in the process the prospect of professional success and the gravitation into strategic positions in the employment market. These are mechanisms that reproduce earlier gender-based inequalities in nursing. CONCLUSIONS: In the light of the social reproduction theory, the academisation of Chilean nursing seems to be built upon historical gender asymmetries. Although the interest of men in embracing a career in nursing may have a meaningful resonance with the transformation of contemporary society, this process needs a judicious examination in order to protect academic integrity and, ultimately, prevent the reproduction of those inequalities in question. This analysis offers a perspective for understanding social patterns embedded in the practice of nursing education in Chile and elsewhere.

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