[The review process of the National Health Promotion Policy: simultaneous multiple movements].

Public policy can be understood as the translation of government proposals and the aspirations of society. Driven by the advances and challenges of social transformation, the need for the coordination of agendas and limited social participation in the drafting of the 2006 National Health Promotion Policy (PNPS), the Ministry of Health and the Thematic Group on Health Promotion/Abrasco proposed the PNPS review. This article describes the steps in that process.