The present paper does a review and analyses the models which have been developed for the analysis of determinants and explanatory factors of the health-disease process as an elementary input for designing educational programs in the training of health manpower. Establishing the hypothesis, variables, advantages, disadvantages, time and authors of each model, the object of the analysis includes the models' methodological and/or scientific aspects: magic-religious, sanitary, unicausal, multicausal, epidemiological, ecological, social, social-historical, geographical, economic and interdisciplinary. The discussion and conclusions focus on the critical and reflexive characteristics of the models, contradictions and compatibilities among them, and their relevance for the training of human resources in health.
Health-Disease; Determinants; Theoretical Models