Objectives of sustainable development and health promotion: a necessary alliance to face chronic diseases

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been placed as a priority agenda for building a more egalitarian and socially just society. It constitutes an agenda whose results will have a direct impact on the approach to chronic health conditions. The objective of the present study was to analyze how the SDGs define the adoption of health promotion measures capable of impacting chronic diseases. It is a narrative review of literature based on the theoretical framework of the SDGs and the recommendations of the world health promotion conferences held in the last decades. It can be concluded that the SDGs can be worked on from two dimensions: one contextual, represented by the challenges posed by contemporaneity, and the other related to the discussion about the role of health professionals. Considering health in its complexity, involved and related to social determinants, it is reinforced that it is not possible to promote health only by transmitting information and seeking self-care from an individual perspective