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ALVARADO CHACIN, Neritza. Las estrategias de inclusión social en Venezuela: un acercamiento a la experiencia de las misiones. Convergencia [online]. 2009, vol.16, n.51, pp.85-128. ISSN 2448-5799.

This paper is a current approach to the Venezuelan social policy against poverty and social exclusion, whose center are the called "social missions", by exploring the experience of "Barrio Adentro" mission (the main one, as an instance), in a case of study carried out with qualitative methodology in communities of Zulia state, oil-region of vital strategic importance (economic and political) for the country, whose capital is Maracaibo city, the second highest population density. While the findings are not extended to the rest of the nation, both because it does not include communities of other states, and the nature of qualitative research that explores in depth the social phenomena; while their findings are not generalizable, they are considered indicative of some important trends, this is significant given the lack of diagnoses and assessments regarding social missions and in particular of "Barrio Adentro" (program for preventive health care), even under the focus of research reported.

Palavras-chave : poverty; social exclusion-inclusion; social policy; misiones sociales-Barrio Adentro.