[Health promotion based on assets: how to work with this perspective in local interventions?]

Abstract

An asset-based approach could be useful to revitalise health promotion or community health interventions combining work with multiple partnerships, positive health, community engagement, equity and orientation of health determinants. We set some recommendations about how to incorporate the assets model in programmes, projects and interventions in health promotion. Some techniques are described for assets mapping and some experiences with this methodology being developed in different regions are systematised. We propose the term "Asset-based Health Promotion/Community Health" as an operational definition to work at the local level with a community engagement and participatory approach, building alliances between different institutions at the state-regional level and trying to create a framework for action with the generation of evaluations and evidence to work on population interventions from the perspective of positive health.

Keywords: Activos para la salud; Assets-based community development model; Community health; Desarrollo comunitario basado en activos; Health assets; Health promotion; Promoción de la salud; Salud comunitaria; Salutogenesis; Salutogénesis.