Notes on health promotion and biopower

Authors

  • João Leite Ferreira Neto PUC-Minas; Programa de Mestrado em Psicologia
  • Luciana Kind PUC-Minas
  • Jairo Stacanelli Barros PUC-Minas
  • Natália Silva Azevedo PUC-Minas
  • Tatiane Marques Abrantes PUC-Minas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-12902009000300010

Keywords:

Health Promotion, Biopower, SUS, Social Participation

Abstract

This work is an exploratory and bibliographic study that aims to analyze the health promotion field, identifying some of its advances and problems in the international debate and in its configuration in the Brazilian Health System (SUS). Thus, it uses texts and documents in the health promotion field in light of the Foucaultian discussion about the effects of biopower on life and the resistances that emerge in this clash. It understands health promotion as a field of discourses and practices, knowledge and powers, simultaneously intersected by regulatory and disciplinary dimensions and by participative and emancipatory dimensions, and tries to make a "genealogy of problems" in this arena. It analyzes the Lalonde Report and its repercussions, comments on the international charters of health promotion, and approaches the Brazilian scenario, marked by the presence of popular forces in the construction of health policies. It indicates that the health promotion work is not performed without tensions, requiring constant attention and a plural and patient effort of managers, technicians and the system's users, in which each advance gives rise to new dangers, calling for new actions.

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Published

2009-09-01

Issue

Section

Part I - Articles

How to Cite

Notes on health promotion and biopower . (2009). Saúde E Sociedade, 18(3), 456-466. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-12902009000300010