Judith Salinas C.’s research while affiliated with University of Santiago Chile and other places

The objective of this article is to present the Health Promotion Cube, a pedagogical resource that facilitates a strategic vision, by integrating approaches for the formulation and analysis of health promotion and nutrition interventions, considering the trajectory of thought since the 1st World Conference on Health Promotion in Ottawa, 1986, to the 9th World Conference on Health Promotion held in Shanghai, 2016. The six dimensions of the Cube with five components each based on the conceptual and methodological update made through a literature review are described. The sides of the Cube answer the questions of: “What to do?”; “Where?”; “How?”; “With whom?”; and, “At what level?” In order to achieve effective interventions in health promotion and nutrition, it is necessary to overcome the fragmentation paradigm, act with multiple strategies and an interdisciplinary perspective, in accordance with the diagnosis of the local reality and the social epidemiological situation at the national level.

The aim of this article was to present an update of the theorical and methodological foundations of counseling and evidence of their effectiveness, relating to the practice of health teams and analyzing future challenges. It is described, the theorical basis, the policy directions of the Chilean Ministry of Health, the international recommended strategies and the contributions of the participants in a training program conducted by INTA with 312 professionals (nutritionists, physiotherapists and dentists mostly). The analysis of the conditions in the Primary Health Care, to implement systematically nutrition, physical activity and tobacco counseling is presented. The need to improve the practice and its contribution to a preventive approach to serious problems of physical inactivity, obesity and smoking in the Chilean population is discussed.