Abstract
Health promotion is a behavioral, political, and social practice aimed at meeting the individual and collective needs and aspirations of citizens. Since the Ottawa Charter (1986), new information and communication technologies (NICTs) have been understood as an integral part of health promotion and are found in international documents that establish priorities for this topic. This chapter analyzes Brazilian academic work on the use of NICTs in health promotion by surveying publications in the “Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations” – an open and free-access portal. Six PhD dissertations and 18 master’s theses were found and were thematically grouped. This chapter concluded that, in the Brazilian studies analyzed, new information and communication technologies (NICTs) are applied in cases of specific pathologies or particular age groups. Brazilian studies in this field reinforce individualistic and biomedical perspective that is far from the wider social parameters defined by international conferences on health promotion.
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