Community health agent and the interface with the educational actions

IntroductionWithin the mandate of all the professionals who make up the Family Health Strategy , health education is common to all . The Nurse as part of the team has a key role in health levels of individuals, families and communities , because the primary purpose of these actions , are guided by the maintenance, promotion, restoration of health , prevention of diseases and disorders and psychological contribution to dealing with the consequences of an imbalance in health disease process can generate a family or community context.MethodsDescriptive qualitative study conducted in the city of Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará , Brazil , with the subject 17 nurses working in the Family Health Strategy . Was used to collect data, semi-structured interviews and content analysis organization.ResultsIt was evident that this is still a perception of limited health education in the prevention of diseases, which may affect the procedures adopted to implement these actions . On the other hand, although with this curative vision care, nurses consider these actions for planning, community health agents , which reveals a care focused on the real needs of the population . However, although they reveal how to easily build these shares access to community workers , point out problems such as lack of management support.ConclusionBecomes necessary reorientation of educational practices in health, which depends on the  qualification  through  graduation  and  support  managers  to  ensure  necessary resources to implement them , so that they are geared towards health  promotion, contributing a greater citizen participation to improve the quality of life .Key words: Health Education in Nursing. Agent Community Health, Family Health StrategyÂ

Health education for seniors: an analysis under Paulo Freire’s perspective

BackgroundPopulation aging is one of the hardest challenges for the current public health, however, for a proper attention to the elders, the development of reachable social and health policies which are consistent with the real needs of this population stratum it is essential. Thus, the aim of this research is to analyze the perceptions of nurses about health education for the elderly, according to the conceptions of Paulo Freire.MethodIt is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, conducted in the city of Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil taking as a background the Unidades de Saúde da Família – USF (Family Health Units). Eighteen nurses participated in this survey. The semi-structured interview was used for gathering data, and to organize those data to the analyses of contents. The analysis of the obtained data started since the conceptions of Paulo Freire and from some relevant articles related to the topic.ResultsConsidering the health concept as a tool to develop people, it was observed in this sense, that some professionals associate health education focused on knowledge exchange, behavior changes, and decision making in health, matching the Freireana ideology of questionable methodology. However, they also identified someprofessionals with a misperception in relation to the health education, since they associate the approach only focused on the concept of health, grounded in the absence of a disease, thus characterizing, a learning bank methodology, since they resort to vertical transmission of knowledge. It was evinced yet that the educational actions performed by those professionals envisioning healthy aging are directed from the identification of prevalent diseases within the community, and that the strict population that receives such assistance it is restricted only to the individuals who seek theUnits (USF), or those who are affected by diseases. ConclusionIt is thought that health education is the instrument that enables the change of behavior and decision making in health care for the users, but it should be planned on an ongoing manner, considering the reality of population, using methodologies that promote dialogue, essential element to establish the necessary link for conducting practical aspectson the perspective of health promotion.Â