Health Promotion and its early foundations: historical and phenomenological issues

Abstract

This research aimed to perform a historical and epistemic analysis of the concept of Health Promotion and its respective understanding of the Subject. The object of this study was the Ottawa Charter of 1986, and its historical-political influences of the 20th Century. As a research method, a hermeneutic analysis was carried out, supported by the methodological strategy of Gadamer, with the aid of a bibliographic revision of historians of the same century, using the second one as an analytic sieve of the document. As a result, it was possible to identify that Public Health changed its Subject into an individuality, fixed in the word by determinants. On the other hand, it is not possible to state without a doubt who is the real Subject of Public Health, but it is believed that by transforming its social context, starting from an ideality placed before the person itself, a perfection will be reached. What it is possible to affirm about this subject it is that he is treated as the Subject of technique, one static individuality into the world, a mere product of applications.