Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol.5, No.3 Publication Date: Mar. 25, 2018 DoI:10.14738/assrj.53.4281. Teixeira-Machado, L., & Coutinho, E. T. (2018). Arts As A Possibility Of Health Promotion: A Proposal For Primary Care. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 5(3) 283-288. Copyright © Society for Science and Education, United Kingdom 283 Arts As A Possibility Of Health Promotion: A Proposal For Primary Care Lavinia Teixeira-Machado PhD Education in Health Department. Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil. Eduardo Tessari Coutinho PhD School of Performing Arts. University of São Paulo, Brazil. ABSTRACT This manuscript discuss the arts as a possible and effective intervention in primary health care. The aim is to highlight health care and promotion policies in Brazil and how education and lifestyle modification can be accomplished. Arts in health promotion and well-being enable and influence the overcoming of the precariousness and inequity of health actions. Primary Health Care is the most efficient way of organizing health system. In the sphere of health promotion policy, community participation stands out as essential to ensure its effectiveness. Health education through arts generates an interface with culture, being fundamental for the promotion of conditions that improve daily activities. Edification of health education ways, using arts, fosters a new vehicle for expression, interpretation, representation and life style. Arts socialize information inherent in various artistic forms, by bringing popular knowledge closer to educational success. As value is conferred on lived experience, art meaning is essentially linked to health. Arts enhance verbal and non-verbal communication, flooded with meanings and symbolism, there are interferences in feelings, in the way people perceive themselves and perceive the world around them, and consequently how they shape their health and their being in the society in which they live. Keywords: Arts, Primary Health Care, Health Promotion, Popular Knowledge “We have Art so we will not die of the truth”. Friedrich Nietzsche BRIEF PRELUDE Thinking about arts in health promotion and well-being enables and influences the overcoming of the precariousness and inequity of health actions, with a view to acting in the collective and transforming lifestyle, which is substantial for the promotion of autonomy and empowerment of community. Although we perceive the precariousness of public health in Brazil, which reinforces deficiency in the entire care network, we can not neglect the exponential jump in Brazilian public policy through the formulation of the Federal Constitution at 1988, with the Unified Public Health System (SUS – Sistema Único de Saúde) creation, although services still go a long way to becoming satisfactory [1,2]. Incessant search for adequate health and life conditions feed into the creation and implementation of feasible alternatives, from the reformulation and organization of paradigms and principles. Analysis of the use of the arts in the health services, awakens an aspect of health practice: the prevention-cure-rehabilitation process, based on the professional duality