Introduction to part IV: Special topics for health promotion

Abstract

This section presents diverse themes related to health promotion in online, hybrid, or face-to-face experiences. Mental health, care sensitive to indigenous cultures, integrative and complementary practices, suicide prevention, and interprofessional education are relevant issues. The authors provide a critical discussion related to teaching, research, and community relations. Thus, they emphasize the relevant role of universities, research institutions, and partnerships with local communities to ensure an educational process committed to developing skills that promote the health and well-being of individuals, specific groups, and the population. The authors consider the challenges, potentials, and limits of these actions in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The six chapters offer a variety of innovative, creative, and collaborative strategies to strengthen the incorporation of knowledge, values, attitudes, and practices associated with the fields, concepts, and principles of health promotion. The writings shared in the chapters of Part 4: Topics of Health Promotion may broaden horizons on possible paths and choices to build educational processes based on active, participatory, critical, and reflective models coherent with health promotion.