PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTHY PUBLIC POLICIES

Even when there is consensus in the scientific community with regards to the necessity to face health issues with a complex, integral and sociohistorical approach, the hegemonic orientation in the training of human resources and the practice of health services continues being individualist, fragmented, reductionist and separated from the social sphere. Psychology has an undoubted potential to contribute to this matter from a perspective that highlights the salutogenic potential of individuals and communities and not merely with assistance or the cure of illnesses in the context that is currently called healthy public policy. In this work we emphasize the necessity to have the health human resources topic in the discussion agenda of the sector as one of the key items that should be worked, in conjunction with planning, regulatory and training entities of health human resources.