title: Strategies to combat poverty and their interface with health promotion.
abstract: The population impoverishment is a social reality whose overcoming is necessary so that we can think about health as a positive concept. This study proposes a reflection on the coping strategies adopted by the Conjunto Palmeira, a Brazilian community in the Northeast, and their interface with health promotion. This community's reality is an example of overcoming social exclusion for different regions of Brazil and other countries. The history of the Conjunto and the collective strategies of empowerment for coping with poverty and search for human development are initially presented. After that, we establish the relationship of those strategies with the action fields for health promotion. Finally, we consider that the mutual responsibility of the community with its health and its relationship with the environment in which they live are means of promoting transformation towards the conquest of a worthy social space.
authors.affiliation: Paraíba Federal University, Technical Health School, Brazil. simonehso@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Simone Helena
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: dos Santos Oliveira
authors.forename: Maria Adelane
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Alves Monteiro
authors.forename: Maria do Socorro
authors.initials: Mdo S
authors.lastname: Vieira Lopes
authors.forename: Daniele Mary
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Silva de Brito
authors.forename: Neiva Francenely Cunha
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.forename: Maria Grasiela Teixeira
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Barroso
authors.forename: Lorena Barbosa
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Ximenes
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001938:Brazil; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D018672:Community Health Planning; D003256:Community Participation; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty; D011204:Poverty Areas; D011640:Public Policy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors