Health promotion in public outreach programs of a Brazilian public university

Health promotion as a field of knowledge combined with public outreachprograms is a differential in training health professionals, strategic for social action and humanized care. This study aimed to identify the outreach programs carried out at a public university in Central-West Brazil andverify their useof health promotion concepts. This documentary researchcollected datainthe electronic platformaccessing the university’s portal, surveying allprojects registered in 2017. Unfinished actions were excluded. To determine the total number of programs, duplicated ones were identified and counted once. There were 23outreach programs registered and carried out, presenting the partial and final reports required by the university. Of these,40%were from the Nursing program. Health promotion concepts were present in 60% of the projects, while theNational Health Promotion Policy was mentioned in 16% of them. In conclusion,it is necessary to change the students’ training model and include public outreach programs focusing on health promotion as an integral part of the pedagogical projects of the university’scurricula. Hence, they should be mandatory activities and no longer extracurricular ones, promoting social responsivity during training in health.