The article discusses the arguments present in the various texts concerning the National Policy of Health Promotion in Brazil and analyzes the documents released in the years 2002, 2006 and 2014, bringing together elements so to understand how health promotion achieved a legal knowledge, becoming part of the government agenda. It concluded that the three Policy' texts embodied distinct moments and revealed tensions in the Policy definition, which can either strengthen a prescriptive trend of health as produce the debate about social determinants in an expanded conception of health. Politicizing such debate is the first step, at the risk of stating a policy that, mainly, blames and responsible individual.
Health promotion; Health policy; Policy making
Fonte: BRASIL, 2002, 2006, 2014.