The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotion

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Autor(a) principal: Czeresnia,Dina
Data de Publicação: 1999
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X1999000400004
Resumo: In this article the author presents a point of view which she considers central to understanding the difference between prevention - associated with the traditional discourse of public health - and health promotion, an idea in connection with which proposals are now being presented for rethinking and redirecting public health practices. This perspective relates to the limits of the health and disease concepts in relation to the concrete experiences of health and illness. On the one hand, practical awareness of this limit implies far-reaching changes in the way scientific knowledge is related to (and used in) the formulation and organization of health practices; on the other, health promotion projects also avail themselves of the concepts guiding the discourse of prevention. This leads to certain difficulties that appear as inconsistencies or gray areas in the operationalization of promotion projects, which do not always succeed in asserting their nature as distinct from traditional preventive practices.
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spelling The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotionPreventionHealth PromotionComplexityEpidemiologyIn this article the author presents a point of view which she considers central to understanding the difference between prevention - associated with the traditional discourse of public health - and health promotion, an idea in connection with which proposals are now being presented for rethinking and redirecting public health practices. This perspective relates to the limits of the health and disease concepts in relation to the concrete experiences of health and illness. On the one hand, practical awareness of this limit implies far-reaching changes in the way scientific knowledge is related to (and used in) the formulation and organization of health practices; on the other, health promotion projects also avail themselves of the concepts guiding the discourse of prevention. This leads to certain difficulties that appear as inconsistencies or gray areas in the operationalization of promotion projects, which do not always succeed in asserting their nature as distinct from traditional preventive practices.Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz1999-10-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X1999000400004Cadernos de Saúde Pública v.15 n.4 1999reponame:Cadernos de Saúde Públicainstname:Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)instacron:FIOCRUZ10.1590/S0102-311X1999000400004info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCzeresnia,Dinaeng2001-08-15T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S0102-311X1999000400004Revistahttp://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/csp/https://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpcadernos@ensp.fiocruz.br||cadernos@ensp.fiocruz.br1678-44640102-311Xopendoar:2001-08-15T00:00Cadernos de Saúde Pública - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)false
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title The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotion
spellingShingle The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotion
Czeresnia,Dina
Prevention
Health Promotion
Complexity
Epidemiology
title_short The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotion
title_full The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotion
title_fullStr The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotion
title_full_unstemmed The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotion
title_sort The concept of health and the difference between prevention and promotion
author Czeresnia,Dina
author_facet Czeresnia,Dina
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Czeresnia,Dina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Prevention
Health Promotion
Complexity
Epidemiology
topic Prevention
Health Promotion
Complexity
Epidemiology
description In this article the author presents a point of view which she considers central to understanding the difference between prevention - associated with the traditional discourse of public health - and health promotion, an idea in connection with which proposals are now being presented for rethinking and redirecting public health practices. This perspective relates to the limits of the health and disease concepts in relation to the concrete experiences of health and illness. On the one hand, practical awareness of this limit implies far-reaching changes in the way scientific knowledge is related to (and used in) the formulation and organization of health practices; on the other, health promotion projects also avail themselves of the concepts guiding the discourse of prevention. This leads to certain difficulties that appear as inconsistencies or gray areas in the operationalization of promotion projects, which do not always succeed in asserting their nature as distinct from traditional preventive practices.
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