The Importance of Health Education as a Delimiting Parameter of the Social Determinants of Health Felipe de Bastos Freire Alvarenga, Ednei Aranha, Marina Stefania Mendes Pereira Garcia

Abstract

The present study had as objective to analyze and to bring notes about the importance of the state tool known as "health education", which is often not used anymore. It was intended to demonstrate the conceptual order and the main triple role played by such a tool, reaching professionals, managers and society in general, in the attempt to reduce social inequities through individual and collective change. Through specific public policies, the manager in general must introduce methods at all levels and levels, in horizontal and vertical directions, with the capacity to reach the Social Determinants of Health, which are the major causes of illness in society in general. Health Education, due to its magnitude, must be seen as the main element of prevention and improvement of the quality of life, since it contributes to the autonomy and the change of culture of the population.