Construcción del concepto de promoción de la salud en la práctica transdisciplinaria.

Abstract

This article presents the results of a research whose objective is to develop a proposal for construction of the concept of health promotion from a transdisciplinary practical addressed to the nursing, psychology, medicine, nutrition and social work, played by the promotion of health professionals. The methodology used qualitative, the method of grounded theory. Used techniques of focus group, interviews and literature review of final work graduate nursing and scientific articles in the database of the Sciences of the Health of the University Library of Costa Rica. You can highlight all scientific disciplines to speak of promoting health, however, no consensus on the concept, which favors the confusion between health promotion and disease prevention as well as a synonym for health promotion health education employment. It is also noteworthy, as national predominantly work in promoting health in a multidisciplinary way in contrast with international articles that present the promotion of health as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary strategy. Important to mention that this research brings from discipline knowledge of practice nurse transdisciplinary y promoting health, demonstrating the breadth of the topic, and therefore generating an invitation to other disciplines to continue this line of research and to deepen in many of the gates that open here.