Health Promotion and Resilience: Possibilities of Theoretical and Analytical Approach

The theoretical-conceptual model of health promotion is one of the main influences for the development of public health policies, as well as the concept of resilience has been showing more and more relevance to the analysis of social issues. By starting from a Health Promotion approach that focuses on the social determinants of health-disease process and socio-environmental issue, this paper aims to conduct a test of theoretical and analytical approach between the assumptions of health promotion and the prospect of analysis made possible by the concept of Resilience.
Resiliency has been a concept well suited to the analysis and identification of risk factors and protecting individuals and communities in situations of social vulnerability. Thus, resilience is understood as the result of interactions between the characteristics of the subjects themselves, and with the complexities of these (risks and vulnerabilities) of social context in which they live. Health promotion as essential features of the joint technical knowledge and popular mobilization and institutional and community resources to confront and resolve health problems. Among the strategies prioritized by the Health Promotion are the creation of healthy public policies, the creation of sustainable environments, reorienting health services, developing the capacity of individual subjects and the strengthening of community action. By operationalizing the concept of resilience, one can obtain a better understanding of the production of adverse health contexts, and thus strengthening the actions of Health Promotion The theoretical and analytical approach between the concepts of Health Promotion Resilience and may contribute to the implementation of a project committed to social and health equity and social production of autonomous individuals and solidarity through networking social-affective.