Abstract

HUNING, Simone Maria  and  LUZ, Valeska C. M.. The booklet that produces 'health´ and 'adolescents´. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.63, n.3, pp. 2-15. ISSN 1809-5267.

This work aims to problematize the Adolescent Health Booklet, produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. We discuss some paradoxes between the Booklet and the Brazilian public health policy, from a foucaultian discourse analysis perspective. Our analysis is organized in four discussion axis: the concepts of adolescence and youth; the biologicist approach; the integrality of health care; youth and citizenship. After that we analyze the Booklet in relationship with the National Health Promotion Policy. We conclude that the Booklet does not follow the expanded conception of health and the principle of integrality of health care, proposed by the Brazilian National Health System. It prioritizes a conception of health that emphasizes the biological dimension. We also observed the absence of references to different ways of being young, as well as the production of a discourse on health focused on prescription, orientation and indication of an ideal way of leading a healthy life, based mainly on body care.

Keywords : Adolescent Health Booklet; Public Health Policy; Youth.

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