CRITICAL AND REFLEXIVE TRAINING OF COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS: A STRATEGY FOR THE ACTIVE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN AND FOR THE BRAZILIAN UNIFIED HEALTH SYSTEM
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2017.28611Keywords:
Community health workers. Breastfeeding. Inservice training. Higher Education.Abstract
The project was carried out as a project of a group of the Education by Work for Health Program (PET-SAÚDE) and the National Program for the Reorientation of Vocational Training in Health (PRO-SAÚDE). This report addresses the training experience of community health agents on breastfeeding practices and the quality of data recorded in the Basic Attention Information System. The training, conducted from March to June/2013 by students of Nutrition, Pharmacy and Medicine at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (Federal University of Ouro Preto), used a critical-reflexive methodology, favoring the problematization of the work process in primary care and the interweaving of technical-scientific knowledge and empirical studies. The knowledge assessment of the community health agents was obtained through pre- and post-test forms containing questions on the subject. The frequency of exclusive breastfeeding in the Basic Attention Information System dropped from 81.04% to 74.77% from July to September/2012 for the same period in 2013, showing a greater reliability in the data record, supposedly overestimated. This work met the demands related to thelocal health services and the need of reorientation of professional training in health in and for the SUS, stimulating the interprofessional education and the effectiveness of the teaching-service-community integration.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2017.28611
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