Imágenes y palabras en la construcción de la Educación en Salud desde la Educación Popular

In this article, we carry out an analysis of productions elaborated on in workshops about the intersection between health education (HE) and popular education (PE). The grammar of visual design (GVD) was used to look at these works, which were made up of multimodal language (visual and verbal modes interacting with each other). In all the images produced, a dialogic dimension appeared, which was represented in the majority of the cases by a circle of people. Furthermore, although less frequently, we found representations of elements harmful to health—something that we linked to a problematizing/critical dimension of reality. On a smaller scale, we also found things that we connected to a transformative intentionality in productions. These were action, collective construction, struggle, organization in assemblies, and connections with the territories. The use of the GDV allowed us to recognize, among other aspects, forms of expression of dynamism and processes and transformations in graphic discourses and contributed to our understanding of the ways in which whoever constructs an image can generate dialogues and express positions towards those who read them. The analysis carried out provides us with criteria and elements to continue and deepen the training in HE from PE. The problematization of reality and its transformation linked to health were the dimensions least addressed, which is why they would deserve greater treatment and reflection in future training spaces.