An approach to Occupational Therapy actions in the Colombian governmental context

Abstract

Social and political Occupational Therapy in Colombia is a reality. Transcending the restorative and intramural model of care based on individual doing builds a professional identity over changing social contexts and allows us to enrich the approach to human occupation as a historical determinant that can condition the structure of a society. Occupations become relevant as social determinants in the health field and their relationship with people's well-being, rights, and exercise of citizenship, as well as social equity indicators, social capital promotion, and human development. The historical development of Occupational Therapy provides tools to understand and expand this emerging perspective. It is also linked to a new vision where political, social, economic, and cultural phenomena and their consequences are multi-causal and manifest in various ways in people, groups, contexts, and the occupation.