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Hacia la Promoción de la Salud
Print version ISSN 0121-7577
Abstract
FRANCO PELAEZ, Zoila Rosa. A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN COLOMBIA AS AN INPUT TO PROMOTE HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE. Hacia promoc. Salud [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.1, pp.25-39. ISSN 0121-7577.
The United Nations Organization (UN), through the United Nations Program for Development (UNPD) from 2000 to 2005 has cared about presenting the reports about human development in Colombia emphasizing worrying aspects due to the negative impact of its effects on the life quality of Colombians in detriment of individual and collective human development. The 2000 report presents individualism to the global society politically specifies human rights, minimal common ethics to all the citizens of the world. The 2001 reports central theme was: the technological advancement and its incidence in development of human capacities enlarging peoples opportunities. The 2002 report deepens democracy in a world that is fragmented every day by different interests that privilege the incommensurable ambition of richness and power concentrated in a few, in detriment of the life quality of the majority of the population. The 2003 National report is based on conflict, seen as a dead end, inviting the concurrence of the economic, political and social sectors to contribute different proposals and make a big national peace agreement for development, promoting dialogues; understand and comprehend conflict, recognizing elements to guide the way to a solution; introduce everybody-wins formulas. The 2004 report focused on the Coffee Zone: a pact for the region emphasizes the influence of all the social sectors in the fortification of programs to reach the Millennium Objectives, attending situations generated by natural disasters and significant variations of the coffee prices. The 2005 report concentrates on the International Cooperation, in regards to a dilemma, aids development, commerce and safety in an unequal world. This knowledge allows locating risk factors that threaten health; health promotion must act upon these to prevent disease.
Keywords : Human development; health promotion; prevention.
