Health promotion, health education, and the public’s health

2021 ◽  
pp. 335-350
Author(s):  
Fran Baum
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Health It ◽  
Equity In Health ◽  
History Of Public Health ◽  
History Of ◽  
Professional Dominance ◽  
Precise Interpretation

Health promotion is a complex, ambiguous concept and set of practices. While many have linked it, primarily, to a revolution in health education, its roots go much deeper into the history of public health. It had its contemporary beginnings in the throes of the backlash against bureaucratic and professional dominance exemplified by the new social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. At its heart, health promotion is centred on the values and principles of equity, participation, and empowerment. These concepts are embedded in health promotion’s founding document, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. However, exactly how these values are articulated is often ambiguous. In this chapter, the authors contend that health promoters must intensify their reflection on these core values and principles; particularly in the light of the tendency to slip back into a comfortable paternalism, which reinforces existing power imbalances. We are specifically concerned with the precise interpretation of health equity in health promotion.

scholarly journals Promoção da Saúde e Medicalização: Notas Inquietantes em Conversas de Foucault com Canguilhem

2021 ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
BRUNO JAY MERCÊS DE LIMA ◽  
DAIANE GASPARETTO DA SILVA ◽  
FLÁVIA CRISTINA SILVEIRA LEMOS
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
History Of Public Health ◽  
Preventative Health ◽  
Politica Publica ◽  
Health Action ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

 Este artigo visa problematizar práticas de promoção de saúde no Brasil, a partir da história da saúde pública no país, em uma analítica da medicalização e da gestão higienista do hospital, da cidade, dos pobres e do Estado. Busca-se pensar como emerge junto com a saúde na atenção básica um modo de gerir a política pública de saúde como tática medicalizante dos corpos, do espaço, do hospital, da comunidade e das relações sociais. Interroga-se no seguinte ensaio temático um conjunto de práticas que operam um mecanismo biopolítico e de governo da vida e das existências por meio de intensa medicalização na atuação preventivista da saúde. Portanto, questiona-se o estilo de vida saudável na sociedade contemporânea a partir de uma estratégia medicalizadora do direito à saúde com Michel Foucault e Georges Canguilhem.Palavras-chave: Saúde. Medicalização. Práticas. Biopolítica. Prevenção. Health Promotion And Medicalization: Disturbing Notes In Talk Of Foucault With CanguilhemABSTRACTThis article aims to problematize health promotion practices in Brazil, based on the history of public health in the country, in an analysis of medicalization and hygienist management of the hospital, the city, the poor and the State. It seeks to think about how a way to manage public health policy emerges together with health in primary care as a medicalizing tactic of bodies, space, hospital, community and social relations. in the following thematic essay a set of practices that operate a biopolitical and government mechanism of life and existences through intense medicalization in preventative health action. Therefore, the healthy lifestyle in contemporary society is questioned based on a medicalizing strategy of the right to health.Keywords: Health. Medicalization. Practices. Biopolitics. Prevention.

scholarly journals Failing to Professionalise, Struggling to Specialise: The Rise and Fall of Health Promotion as a Putative Specialism in England, 1980–2000

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
History Of Public Health ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Significant Attention

AbstractSignificant attention has been paid to the history of public health in England during the final part of the twentieth century. Within this, however, the field that came to be known as specialist health promotion (SHP) has been relatively neglected. Between 1980 and 2000 those working in this field, generally known as health promotion specialists (HPSs), enjoyed a relative rise in policy and practice prominence before SHP was effectively abandoned by government and others charged with developing and sustaining public-health structures. This paper seeks to explain why the fall of SHP is important; to move towards explaining its rise and decline; and to argue for greater historical attention to be paid to an important but neglected field within health and health care. Essentially, SHP emerged from a set of loose and contingent practices known as health education. A range of important social, economic, organisational and political influences contributed to the slow construction of a putative specialism in health promotion, accompanied by the desire on the part of some (but not all) HPSs to ‘professionalise’ their role. Finally the projects of both specialisation and professionalisation failed, again as a result of then prevailing organisational and political influences. The importance of such a failure in a so-called era of public health is discussed. In the light of this, the paper concludes by briefly setting out an agenda for further research related to the history of SHP.

A HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH

BMJ ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 1 (5019) ◽  
pp. 632-632
Author(s):  
S. W. Hinds
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
History Of Public Health ◽  
History Of

Public Health and the State: Changing Views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936, by Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1972, 259 pp., $9.00

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-324
Author(s):  
William M. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Authority ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
The State ◽  
Health It ◽  
State Health ◽  
History Of ◽  
Structure And Functions ◽  
State Board

This book was written in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts State Board of Health. It is a record of events in mid-l9th century Massachusetts which led to the establishment of the Board of Health and of the changes in structure and functions of the State health authority from 1869 to 1936. It is, however, much more than this. As the subtitle indicates, this is a history of views and opinions about public health, particularly conflicting views as to the nature and extent of the Commonwealth's public health responsibilities.

Person-centered medicine in Croatia: Analyzing past successes and creating future goals

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Marijana Bras ◽  
Veljko Đorđević ◽  
Nadja Komnenić
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
International College ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Training

The promotion of person-centered medicine and people-centered healthcare has been occurring in Croatia for decades. Professor Andrija Štampar, considered by many as the father of public health, pioneered various public health projects in Croatia and abroad. Croatia is a country with a long history of patient associations, as well as one with an array of public health projects recognized worldwide. Recently, a group of enthusiasts gathered here to undertake the creation of a variety of projects related to the development of person-centered medicine. The International College on Person Centered Medicine (ICPCM) emerged from the ongoing annual Geneva Conferences and from the aspiration to promote medicine of the person, for the person, by the person, and with the person. The main theme of the First International Congress of the ICPCM in Zagreb in November 2013 was the Whole Person in Health Education and Training. The Zagreb statement on the appraisal and prospects for person-centered medicine in Croatia was formulated and adopted, wherein it was concluded that Croatia could contribute significantly to the development of person-centered medicine and people-centered healthcare, within Croatia and abroad.

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