Social Determinants of Health: Education as a Prevention Element and Improvement in the Population's Quality of Life Carlos Augusto Tolomelli Malaquias

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze and bring notes on the importance of the state tool called health education. There was the intention to demonstrate the conceptual order and the main role that is played by such a tool, reaching professionals, managers and society in general, in an attempt to reduce social inequities through individual and collective change. Through specific public policies, the manager in general must introduce, in all spheres and levels, methods with the ability to reach the inequities present in the social determinants of health, which end up being the biggest causes of illness in society in general. Health education is approached as a viable element for prevention and for improving the quality of life, as it contributes to the population's autonomy and culture change.