SUMMARY
Objectives: reflecting upon which incentives social marketing and health education are based on, and their differences
and interconnections becomes essential to promote healthy lifestyles and ensure a free and sustainable future.
Methods: in order to promote health, it is necessary to use all the incentives that contribute to achieving this end.
Health education, social marketing and laws (expression of the policy) are to be considered the functional medium
of health promotion to be used generally or individually, according to the targets/contexts.
Results: the methods used to promote health are work in progress, the Community Based Prevention Marketing is
such an expression.
Conclusions: considering health as a resource for everyday life means externalizing it from what is seen as the sole
responsibility of the health system. Health should become the purpose of actions which, through cross-sector
synergies, concern the different components of civil society, particularly political agendas.