Objective:

This article intends to identify different models of health promotion (HP), and analyze how health promotion has evolved from the guidelines of social determinants (SDH) and its applicability in the countries.

Methodology:

starting from a thematic review of the articles in Pubmed, Lilac and Scielo, using the Boolean operators (PS) or (primary care) and (SDH) or (social determinants of health) in the last 5 years. A total of 178 articles were obtained in Lilac, 69 in Scielo, 132 in Pubmed. A total of 33 articles were found in scholar.google.com, thanks to the descriptors, “models, approaches and theories“ and PS.

Results:

the main areas identified are: primary care, SDH, public policies, oral health, health policies, health services, accessibility. The logic of prevention and its differentiation with the rationality of PS is analyzed, based on an analysis of the context of international practice. The confusion between promotion and prevention and the lack of development of the collective and community levels of HP based on primary health care, are discussed.

Conclusions:

PS and prevention failed to be developed in health systems. Many of the theoretical postulates of PS have been relegated. Several levels of intervention in PS are proposed: contextual, macro, meso, micro, individual, and global, strategic, community, interpersonal and intrapersonal actions. More research is needed on SDH, which establishes the balance between the individual and the collective, in PS.

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