Publisher's Synopsis
This work represents for me the opportunity to dialogue with the authors about the possibility of building a public health governance agenda with an emphasis on migratory flows from a transdisciplinary perspective. In their historical development, the social sciences, humanities, political and economic-administrative sciences have focused their attention on the quality of the relationships between individuals, groups and collectivities with respect to their immediate or distant environment, but the authors' proposal is that of a transactional approach. The reader will remember that the sciences in question were built from an approach of the functions of things and people, followed by their integration in systems, but even the most comprehensive versions, by focusing on the needs, expectations or capabilities of individuals, did not notice the importance of codifying knowledge to reconstruct it. This is so because knowledge management is inherent to that longed-for quality of relations between the parts and the whole. It is an alternative of well-being, not centered on the emotion of coexistence, support or solidarity, but on the convenience of building a transparent, rotating and equitable system. Precisely, the book starts from these foundations to demonstrate their applicability in areas such as migration and, specifically, the health of communities and migratory flows.
