Introduction:

The training of health promoters contributes to modifying the elements unfavorable for health. With the new Venezuelan Constitution, health becomes a fundamental social right and the State recovers its role. This new State-Society relationship is the basis of the Barrio Adentro Mission, a response to the solution of the main social and health needs.

Objective:

To describe the contribution of community health promoters, as part of the Barrio Adentro Mission, to the theoretical references concerning health promotion in Venezuela.

Methods:

A bibliographic review was carried out using different search engines, by means of which it was possible to access several referential databases that offered full texts, indexes and academic periodicals, including BIREME, Ebsco, regional SciELO, and sources of information available at the Virtual Health Library (VHL), such as LILACS, MEDLINE, Hinari, and others.

Conclusions:

The Barrio Adentro Mission has been developed as a comprehensive health project interrelated with education, sports, food, culture and social security, a real strategy for primary health care and, consequently, health promotion as primary task. The Barrio Adentro popular clinic is the essential link in the training process for community health promoters. There is no history of any training strategy for community health promoters adequate to the sui generis conditions of the Barrio Adentro Mission.

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