Os sentidos da Promoção da Saúde no contexto escolar: da reforma sanitária ao neoliberalismo

Abstract

Health Promotion is a socially relevant topic that can be addressed by Physical Education teachers. Health can focus on biological theories, or extend its field of vision, to a multifactorial character, involving various humanities, health and social sciences, among them the discipline Physical Education. The aim objective is to identify the meanings attributed to the term Health Promotion by students in the 9th grade of elementary school and the 3rd year of high school in a private school unit in the Baixada Fluminense region of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The research instrument used was a questionnaire with open and closed questions, answered by the students, which dealt with the theme of Health Promotion. For data analysis of the answers, the Laurence Bardin Content Analysis was used, as well as a basis. This work focused on the following themes: the neoliberal doctrine evidenced contributions from the area of Applied Social Sciences, Brazilian Health Reform and Health Promotion at school This paper was submitted to the Ethics Committee on Research in Human Beings of the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital (CEP/HUPE). The results of this study found that the meanings attributed to Health Promotion are predominantly from the biological point of view, reinforcing the importance of active lifestyle, individual behaviors and the influence of the neoliberal model of the capitalist system on health promotion, without considering the relevance of the social determinants of health described in the 1988 Federal Constitution. and in Law 8080/90