Dilemmas in health promotion in Brazil: the National Policy under consideration

Despite being a recurrent theme in day-to-day life, health promotion is a complex and multifaceted concept. The purpose of this article is to highlight some of the dilemmas and problematic aspects of institutional ideas about health promotion. It also emphasizes the difficulty of thinking about heal...

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Main Authors: Martha A. Traverso-Yépez, David Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (Unesp) 2007-01-01
Series:Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-32832007000100027&lng=en&tlng=en