Ways Of life of autistic People from the iIntegral Medicine center (Cartagena - Colombia) Modos de Vida de Personas Autistas del Centro Medicina Integral (Cartagena - Colombia)

Abstract

This work focused its objective on characterizing the ways of life of autistic people at the Integral Medicine Center in the city of Cartagena-Colombia, through critical epidemiology in its aspect of social determination of health. It was carried out using qualitative-quantitative techniques such as the survey, the interview, the bibliographical-documentary review and natural observation. The sample consisted of 105 families of autistic people attending the Integral Medicine Center in the city of Cartagena, Colombia, and the results were processed using the SPSS STATISTICS 25 data processing software. Results: at the level of the lifestyles of the families of the autistic people, it is seen how the categories of the general domain determine the dynamics of lifestyles. In the characterization of categories of a particular order such as ethnicity, social class and the gender of the family leader, the mestizo race, low social insertion and the male gender prevailed. At the educational-labor level, the tendency to work at the middle level under subordination and informality with technical and basic studies predominates in more than 60%. Access to health is good, since more than 90% enjoy this service. At the level of exhibitions, the processes are varied, few supports are evident, socio-spatial environmental contamination in families, inequity in the territory, pathologization and myths about the condition of autism. Conclusions: it was possible to conclude that autism in Cartagena Colombia is not an isolated condition, but is subsumed under systems of the general, particular and singular order, which condition the individual and their families.