title: [Health promotion based on assets: how to work with this perspective in local interventions?]
abstract: An asset-based approach could be useful to revitalise health promotion or community health interventions combining work with multiple partnerships, positive health, community engagement, equity and orientation of health determinants. We set some recommendations about how to incorporate the assets model in programmes, projects and interventions in health promotion. Some techniques are described for assets mapping and some experiences with this methodology being developed in different regions are systematised. We propose the term "Asset-based Health Promotion/Community Health" as an operational definition to work at the local level with a community engagement and participatory approach, building alliances between different institutions at the state-regional level and trying to create a framework for action with the generation of evaluations and evidence to work on population interventions from the perspective of positive health.
authors.affiliation: Observatorio de Salud en Asturias, Dirección General de Salud Pública, Oviedo (Asturias), España; Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Granada, España. Electronic address: rafael.cofinofernandez@asturias.org.
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cofiño
authors.affiliation: Fundación para la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana (FISABIO), Valencia, España.
authors.forename: Dory
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aviñó
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Atención Primaria Aragón, Grupo PACAP Aragón, Zaragoza, España.
authors.forename: Carmen Belén
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Benedé
authors.affiliation: Distrito de Atención Primaria Condado-Campiña, Servicio Andaluz de Salud, La Palma del Condado (Huelva), España.
authors.forename: Blanca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Botello
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud Leganés Norte, Leganés (Madrid), España.
authors.forename: Jara
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cubillo
authors.affiliation: Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Antony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.affiliation: Direcció General de Salut Pública, Valencia, España.
authors.forename: Joan Josep
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Paredes-Carbonell
authors.affiliation: Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública, Granada, España.
authors.forename: Mariano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hernán
mesh_terms: D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D013030:Spain
keywords: Activos para la salud; Assets-based community development model; Community health; Desarrollo comunitario basado en activos; Health assets; Health promotion; Promoción de la salud; Salud comunitaria; Salutogenesis; Salutogénesis