Health promotion as a politics of subjectivity: constitution, limits, and potentials of health promotion institutionalization at schools

PABLO FRANCISCO DI LEO

Salud Colectiva

Universidad Nacional de Lanús

Lugar: Lanús; Año: 2009 vol. 5 p. 377 - 389

Indexed in: MEDLINE - Index Medicus, SciELO Salud Pública, SciELO Argentina, Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas, DOAJ, DIALNET, Redalyc, PASCAL, Journal Citation Reports - Social Sciences Citation Index, SCOPUS, HAPI, ProQuest, ULrichSWEB, Clase, LILACS, BINACIS, LATINDEX. Nivel CONICET (Res. 2249/14): Grupo 1.This article faces the tension, formation and main characteristics of the field of health promotion at schools to examine the limits, and potentials of its institutionalization in Argentina. Firstly, we state the main phases of the process of constitution of such field at an international level, summarizing the factors that make its experimental phase difficult. Then, and using present bibliography, tools of social contemporary theory and our own works in the field, we analyze the main paradigms present when facing health and education, highlighting the conceptions of presupposed/reproduced subjectivity from them. Finally, we think over the potential of the institutionalization of the health promotion democratic paradigm at schools to generate subjectivity policies in the present context of our societies.