[Health from the municipality: a strategy for development].
Taking into account some aspects of the evolution of the health-illness concept, and considering that health depends on four elements--human biology, environment, life styles and health promotion with emphasis on well-being--the intersectorial action, the participation of the population in their own health care and the reorientation of services through the development of local health systems, are evaluated. At the same time mention is made of the importance of the decentralization process and the district's participation in the democratization of the civilian life. Considering all these aspects, the possibility of implementing the healthy district strategy as an alternative and facilitating form of development and well being and as a way to distribute health more equitably, is proposed. To increment the effects of this strategy, support for the creation of a regional movement of healthy districts is suggested.
Organización Panamericana de la Salud/Organización Mundial de la Salud en México (OPS/OMS), México, D.F.
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D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008122:Local Area Networks; D008800:Mexico; D016730:Program Development; D014504:Urban Health
Salud desde el municipio: una estrategia para el desarrollo.