Promoção da saúde e qualidade de vida

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

1 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, [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 muitos componentes da vida social que contribuem para uma vida com qualidade são também fundamentais para que indivíduos e populações alcancem um perfil elevado de saúde. É necessário mais do que o acesso a serviços médico-assistenciais de qualidade, é