Open AccessHealth promotion: Criticism of everyday life medicalization practices
Author(s) -
Kênia Silva,
Roseni Rosângela de Sena
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of nursing education and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-4059
pISSN - 1925-4040
DOI - 10.5430/jnep.v3n9p83
Subject(s) - medicalization , autonomy , promotion (chess) , health promotion , action (physics) , everyday life , criticism , sociology , public relations , psychology , political science , medicine , nursing , public health , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , law
The aim of this study was to analyze the meanings of the practices of health promotion. The results indicate that the practices in different social areas are sustained within the mechanisms of social control and management of vulnerable populations. Thus, there is the feedback of the biomedical paradigm now materialized in different practices in different areas beyond the traditional health services. It is concluded that health promotion in areas of daily life presents the challenge of expanding the potential autonomy of action of individuals in movements that consider the potential social areas in constant transformation of everyday life.