Promoção da saúde: uma nova política pode alterar um paradigma?

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Elzimar Evangelista Peixoto
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3085
• topic: Health promotion; Health public politics; National politics of health promotion; Psychology; Psicologia; Políticas - Saúde pública; Promoção da saúde; Psicologia; 159.9

The research analyses the National Politics of Health Promotion, developed in the ambit of the Sistema Único de Saúde- SUS (Unique System of Health), aiming at analyzing the conceptions of health that permeates the politics. It analyses its approximation with the several chains of Health promotion and the possible contradictions between the goals and strategies of consolidation. It is a documental research, done through a primary document – the National Politics of Health Promotion text - and uses as method the methodology of content analysis. It evaluates that the referred politics keeps the traditional emphasis in the orientation for the change in behaviors, highlighting the individual aspect, in a vertical and authoritarian way. Such perspective, when considering the subject as responsible, contributes for the non-politicizing the concept of health. The strategies to face the social determination of health are vague and imprecise. The evaluation of actions of promoting health is advised through the technical knowledge, not considering the participation of all the actors involved in the process. It emphasizes the importance of formatting health professionals to work with the health promotion, seeing such formation as skill for the counseling of healthier life styles. Such proposals show a contradiction with the directives of SUS, which stand out the importance of autonomy and the popular participation in the health production. To conclude, it is important to stand out the necessity of orientations reflections and practical actions, proposed by the National Politics of Health Promotion, searching for the production of new relations between humans, related to a potentiality of individual and collective practices.