This essay discusses the various approaches to health promotion and participation and its implications in the sense of contributing to the construction of new practices and undertakings around the social production of health. It defends the idea that health promotion practices can be power activators of actions to construct measures which result in the strengthening of subjects and collectivities, in the increase of autonomy and in the increasing of participation and networks. The intention of this article is to share ideas, as well as being an invitation to move away from revenues and reproductions, in order to invent our own methods of constructing health promotion.
Health promotion;; Social participation; Autonomy
Fonte: OMS (2011).