Health promotion aimed to reducing uterine cervical cancer risk factors

Abstract

The first International Conference on Health Promotion celebrated in Ottawa on November 21st, 1986, defined health promotion as “the process allowing people to increase the control on their health and therefore to improve it”. It is clearly understood that health promotion goes beyond life styles, and also includes education for health, communication and social participation, necessary tools for its instrumentation in the first health care level. In every day practice it is continually not recognized the value of the adequate acknowledgement of health promotion dimensions, from a holistic perspective, aimed to reducing the uterine cervical cancer risk factors. The purpose of the research was theoretically contributing to the strengthening of the National Program of Uterine Cervical Cancer Precocious Diagnosis. When considering the value of this discipline in all its dimensions, the health care professional has a theoretical base to guide the actions aimed to reducing the risk factors of this kind of cancer among the female population.