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PROMOO DA SADE:
CONCEITOS E DEFINIES
Health Promotion: Concepts and Definitions
Rosilda Mendes
Educadora, doutora em sade pblica,
assessora tcnica da Secretaria Municipal de Sade de So Paulo
sinopse
A promoo da sade mais ampla que a preveno da sade. preciso ampliar a discusso da preveno para a tica da
promoo da sade. Ou seja, mudar a lgica simplista da viso economicista de que melhor prevenir do que curar para a
concepo do direito de no ter um agravo para o qual j existem conhecimentos e prticas disponveis, que podem proteger o
indivduo de ter tal agravo. A concepo anterior reduz o objetivo das aes simplesmente, para ausncia da doena. Na verdade,
a promoo da sade est vinculada noo de direitos, ou seja, o direito a ter uma vida saudvel.
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H ealth promotion is more extensive than sickness prevention. It is necessary to widen discussion of prevention for the
viewpoint of health promotion. In other words, to alter the simplistic logic of economist vision that it is better to prevent
than to cure in support of the concept of the right to not contract an illness for which already exists knowledge and available
practice, which can protect the individual from contracting such illness. The previous concept reduces the objective of actions
simply, for the absence of sickness. In reality, health promotion is linked to the notion of rights, in other words, the right of
having a healthy life.
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