El concepto de bienestar: una construcción desde la revisión de la literatura y la perspectiva de actores institucionales y comunitarios de la ciudad de Bogotá (Colombia)

Ensuring the best possible health, through care focused
on the individual and collective needs and well-being,
has been one of the health priorities of multiple
administrations. This article seeks to build the definition
of well-being in the context of health care through a
mixed methodology of data collection that included a
descriptive review of the literature and a qualitative
approach, through group interviews, world café style, with
representatives of institutions, from the city of Bogotá
and members of the community (97 participants
were interviewed). From this, a definition of wellbeing
was consolidated according to the concept
synthesis strategy, with an emphasis on care for wellbeing.
This concept shows approaches that may be
relevant in the discussions that revolve around the
formulation of public health policies and their
implementation in health care models. The definition of
well-being is ambivalent, as it is present both at the
individual and the collective level. Although the
improvement of people’s quality of life and the absence of
disease are some conceptual determinants, well-being is
also defined by a set of factors that promote an ideal state
in people and which implies new forms of relationships.