A educação popular como um instrumento de educação em saúde em comunidades de baixa renda: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

Health Promotion Programns are one of the great lifting principles of the Primary Attention. Considering its importance in making the assistance more effective and decades of conversations about its incorporation in the health services, it did not reach relevance in the institucional public spaces. This work presents a bibliographical review on Popular Education in Health as a proposal of establishing health promotion programns in low income communities. It reflects on the transforming potential of this boarding as an attempt to find solutions built by the sharing popular knowledge and scientific one. It points this strategy as a counterpoint to the tecnicist and hegemonic model in health. It describes its historical process, as well as presents the theories, proposals and experiences of this movement, focusing on the diferent aspects that has relation to health such as the social, cultural and subjective dimensions, searching as a maximum expression, the social emancipation. It relates the social support to the movement.