This paper discusses alternatives for Public Health in the future, based on the ideas and demands of postmodernity. It presents the sanitaiy improvements achieved in modem times and discusses the morbid effects of techno-science. Based on the contributions of the post-modern thought, it proposes an agenda of challenges to be faced by the new Public Health. Moreover, it suggests new conceptual ways of dealing with subjective versus objective, and social versus individual relationships in the sanitary field. It discusses the premises and the possibilities for the Healthy Policies to become a new identity of public health.
Healthy Policies; Health in Postmodernity; Crisis in Public Health