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GENTIL GARCIA, Isabel. Worldview of Sub-Saharan emigrants and nursing care. Index Enferm [online]. 2012, vol.21, n.3, pp.121-125. ISSN 1699-5988.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1132-12962012000200003.

The population of sub-Saharan immigrants is unknown by health care professionals. Objective: know, across his voices, his cosmovision that frames values, beliefs and practices on health and disease, centring on the human being with holistic approach. Methodology qualitative, phenomenology. Results: His conception of the life and of the universe is impregnated with the most ancient religion of the world: the animism. The forbears who died continue being to protect them. They estimate the sanitary Spanish attention though there are sufferings that there solves better the traditional African medicine. Though the attention is correct one can wake susceptibility up on not having known all the cultural codes of the new company. The familiar solidarity is a fundamental value. Conclusions: the ancient solidarity in the human beings must continue guiding the professionals of the health compromised with the health of the population, defending the Welfare state opposite to the voices they it tries to dismantle.

Palabras clave : Health; Globalization; Subsaharan Immigrants; Nursing.