The denaturalization of global crises and the necessary knowledge in health

Abstract

Using as a reference the "social autopsy" of the 1995 Chicago heat wave, the article examines the global crises, particularly climate change, its theoretical frameworks, and the information available to analyze the problem. Compared with the social autopsy framework, the current standard analytical model is insufficient to reveal the global crises' underlying social and political processes. The absence of an adequate analytical framework challenges the establishment of appropriate public policies that are needed to face the current global crisis. It also favors the "naturalization" of the processes, hiding the political-social component, which reveals itself as a health piece of evidence but not as a long-term and determinant social process.

Keywords: Climate change. 2030 agenda. Social autopsy. Denaturalization of disasters. Socio-environmental vulnerability. SDG3.