This study introduces the importance of the practices and strategies of the lower classes population in facing their daily problems in order to direct actions to Collective Health. Unveiling the ways of struggle of these classes, concerning their health-disease process, implies to identify the practices connected direct or indirectly with health, and in this specific study, with feeding. The study indicates a methodology (interdisciplinary) and the concepts related to practices, strategies, living situations and health. The different social categories create strategies based on their logic of action and on their experiences and life stories. The study sets out that the comprehension of the ways of facing their daily problems includes the use of strategies that (re)appropriate and (re)construct their knowledge, and it also points out that the identification of the existing social network facilitates the acknowledgment of these practices and the direction of the Collective Health actions.
Strategies; Inter-aid networks; Feeding; Interdisciplinarity; Living situations
