Physical activity recommendations in South America: a decolonial analysis
Objective: This article analyzed official physical activity (PA) recommendations in South American countries, particularly regarding the guidelines and concepts of PA, health, and population. Methods: The research is documentary and exploratory. The primary sources are 10 documents from the Ministr...
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| author | Priscilla de Cesaro Antunes Heitor Martins Pasquim María Rosa Corral-Vázquez Tatiana Castillo Rodrigo Soto-Lagos Fernanda Ramos Parreira Leonardo Trapaga Abib Claudia Cortés-Garcia María Laura Pagola Edwin Alexander Canon-Buitrago |
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Objective: This article analyzed official physical activity (PA) recommendations in South American countries, particularly regarding the guidelines and concepts of PA, health, and population. Methods: The research is documentary and exploratory. The primary sources are 10 documents from the Ministries of Health of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela concerning public policies on PA promotion and health promotion. The data analysis was based on a qualitative approach within social research, from a decolonial theoretical perspective. Results: The results showed that the analyzed guidelines reproduce the multicausal explanatory model of health-disease processes and that the recommendatory-prescriptive approach for a medicalized PA prevails. These are marks of epistemological-sanitary colonialism. The data indicate that the identified South American countries have been importing and translating, in their own way, conservative references from the global north, that do not necessarily dialogue with the continent’s socio-sanitary needs. Conclusion: In this sense, one way to locate alternative counter-references to the hegemonic logic, based on local realities, is to follow the premises of the Latin American field of Collective Health and the Critical Epidemiology of Bodily Practices.
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| spelling | doaj-art-0a98716eba0248e68de9256bbaf161542025-08-20T03:29:39ZengSociedade Brasileira de Atividade Física e SaúdeRevista Brasileira de Atividade Física e Saúde2317-16342025-06-013010.12820/rbafs.30e0391iPhysical activity recommendations in South America: a decolonial analysisPriscilla de Cesaro Antunes 0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2739-193XHeitor Martins Pasquim1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4994-7399María Rosa Corral-Vázquezhttps://orcid.org/0009-0009-0593-1334Tatiana Castillo2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7365-0501Rodrigo Soto-Lagos3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3564-8419Fernanda Ramos Parreira4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8168-9185Leonardo Trapaga Abib5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9335-2141Claudia Cortés-Garcia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1939-7653María Laura Pagola6https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7429-1881Edwin Alexander Canon-Buitragohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6853-7221Federal University of GoiásFederal University of São PauloUniversity of Santiago ChileUniversity of Santiago ChileFederal University of GoiásFederal University of GoiásNational University of La Plata Objective: This article analyzed official physical activity (PA) recommendations in South American countries, particularly regarding the guidelines and concepts of PA, health, and population. Methods: The research is documentary and exploratory. The primary sources are 10 documents from the Ministries of Health of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela concerning public policies on PA promotion and health promotion. The data analysis was based on a qualitative approach within social research, from a decolonial theoretical perspective. Results: The results showed that the analyzed guidelines reproduce the multicausal explanatory model of health-disease processes and that the recommendatory-prescriptive approach for a medicalized PA prevails. These are marks of epistemological-sanitary colonialism. The data indicate that the identified South American countries have been importing and translating, in their own way, conservative references from the global north, that do not necessarily dialogue with the continent’s socio-sanitary needs. Conclusion: In this sense, one way to locate alternative counter-references to the hegemonic logic, based on local realities, is to follow the premises of the Latin American field of Collective Health and the Critical Epidemiology of Bodily Practices. https://rbafs.org.br/RBAFS/article/view/15501Bodily practicesPublic healthLatin AmericaPublic policiesPhysical Education |
| spellingShingle | Priscilla de Cesaro Antunes Heitor Martins Pasquim María Rosa Corral-Vázquez Tatiana Castillo Rodrigo Soto-Lagos Fernanda Ramos Parreira Leonardo Trapaga Abib Claudia Cortés-Garcia María Laura Pagola Edwin Alexander Canon-Buitrago Physical activity recommendations in South America: a decolonial analysis Revista Brasileira de Atividade Física e Saúde Bodily practices Public health Latin America Public policies Physical Education |
| title | Physical activity recommendations in South America: a decolonial analysis |
| title_full | Physical activity recommendations in South America: a decolonial analysis |
| title_fullStr | Physical activity recommendations in South America: a decolonial analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Physical activity recommendations in South America: a decolonial analysis |
| title_short | Physical activity recommendations in South America: a decolonial analysis |
| title_sort | physical activity recommendations in south america a decolonial analysis |
| topic | Bodily practices Public health Latin America Public policies Physical Education |
| url | https://rbafs.org.br/RBAFS/article/view/15501 |
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