Introduction:

community social psychology takes the community as its particular object of study. The considerations were shown from a Marxist perspective in this theoretical review of community social psychology, which will facilitate investigations of social problems in primary health care.

Objective:

to implement programs for promoting healthy lifestyles and disease prevention in communities through the contributions of Marxism.

Methods:

a systematic bibliographic review on the subject was carried out. An instructive card was elaborated for data collection and a direct content analysis was applied for their processing.

Conclusions:

the considerations on the social community psychology allowed, from the theoretical point of view, to make contributions in the intervention work in the community; that primary health care can respond to social and health problems; and contributed to the promotion of healthy behaviors and disease prevention.