Theory and practice of promotion of health: the conceptions of the communitarian health agents: DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.20112137144
The insertion of Communitarian Health Agents (ACS) in the Strategy Health of the Family brought many expectations aboutthe possibilities and limits of the actions this professional could realize. The aim of this article is to analyze the actions and conceptionsof the referring ACS to the Promotion o...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Centro Universitário São Camilo |
| Repositorio: | O Mundo da Saúde (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs3.revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br:article/557 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br/mundodasaude/article/view/557 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Auxiliares de Saúde. Promoção da Saúde. Cidadania. Community Health Aides. Health Promotion. Citizenship. |
| Sumario: | The insertion of Communitarian Health Agents (ACS) in the Strategy Health of the Family brought many expectations aboutthe possibilities and limits of the actions this professional could realize. The aim of this article is to analyze the actions and conceptionsof the referring ACS to the Promotion of the Health, as well as the degree of its communitarian contribution for or empowerment inthe prospect of the exercise of citizenship. For such, we developed a case study. The study setting was a Unit of Health located in thecentral region of the municipality of Sao Paulo; 10 ACS have been subjects. Data were collected by means of the technique of focalgroup. The discussions derived from the analyzed groups have been transcribed according to the technique of Speech of the CollectiveSubject. The results have shown that ACS works from a biologicist perspective as regards informing the population. We found it possiblefor that professional to communicate with the families of their micro-area. The conclusion is that these professionals, when enabled onthe basis of conceptions of Promotion of Health, will be able to be powerful agents of construction of citizenship by the population byenabling these groups to recognize their needs of health and to identify effective public policies for the attention of those needs. |
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