promoçao de saude

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
Print version ISSN 1413-8123

Ciênc. saúde coletiva vol.5 no.1 Rio de Janeiro 2000 doi: 10.15
90/S
1413-81232000000100014

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Promoção da saúde e qualidade de vida Health promotion and quality of life

Paulo Marchiori Buss
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Departamento de
Administração e
Planejamento em
Saúde, Escola
Nacional de Saúde
Pública, Fundação
Oswaldo Cruz. Rua
Leopoldo Bulhões
1.480, 3o andar,
21041-210 Rio de
Janeiro, RJ [e-mail] Abstract Several scientific evidences show the contribution of health to the quality of life of either individuals or populations.
Similarly, many of the social life components that contribute to quality in life are also essential for individuals and populations to attain an adequate health standard. For individuals and populations to achieve appropriate health standards it is necessary not only access to quality medical-health services.
Health determinants must be considered widely, thus requiring healthy public policies (concerned with its impacts on health), an effective intersectoral articulation, and the population's engagement. In this paper, the author reviews the emergency and development of health promotion by focusing his analysis on the above strategies, which according to the health sector's propositions would be the most promising strategies to improve the quality of life, especially in social formations where social-public health inequities are so many, as in Brazil.
These strategies are materialized in the bases and practices of the healthy towns movement, which are strictly associated with public management innovations for the integral and sustainable local development, as well as with the local
Agenda 21.
Key words Health Promotion; Quality of Life

Resumo Existem evidências científicas abundantes que mostram a contribuição da saúde para a qualidade de vida de indivíduos ou populações. Da mesma forma, é sabido que
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