Introduction:

the Cuban government dedicates efforts and resources to the improvement of the teacher's work and the training of students at different levels of education on issues related to life skills from health promotion, its pedagogical conception, reflections and points of view.

Objective:

to critically analyze the theoretical and methodological evolution of the development of life skills in high school students from health promotion.

Methods:

a critical bibliographic review of doctoral, master's degrees theses, publications of original and review articles published in the last decade (2010-2020), in indexed national and international journals and in recognized databases as SciELO and Google Scholar was carried out. The main keywords used were: life skills, health promotion, students and medical education.

Development:

after reviewing bibliography, the theoretical and methodological evolution of the development of life skills in high school students from health promotion was critically analyzed, this allowed determining existing gaps in the theory, regarding the subject reason for study.

Conclusions:

it was determined that there are shortcomings in the problem studied and new considerations are proposed for its achievement.

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