Risk Behaviour of Field Workers with Common Infections

With the purpose of understanding the social dimension of infectious diseases caused by actinomycetes, we present the complexity of the triad balance of agent-environment-host through the structural genetic model, highlighting reality levels, structural causes, health risks and risk behaviours. We discuss the possibility of recovering the subjective experience of the patient as a member of a community of sufferers, who present levels of extreme poverty, and whose risk behaviours are determined by networks of meanings with which they interpret the experience of being alive, appropriating and reconstructing the traditions and beliefs that have allowed them to live in a world that is adverse to them.