As potencialidades do agente comunitário de saúde na efetivação da promoção da saúde: uma análise das suas ações no município de Marília - SP / The potentialities of community health work in the realization of health promotion: a review of their actions in the Marílias city

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This study aims to describe and analyze the actions carried out by community health work (CHW) in Marília (SP), about his potential in the realization of health promotion, in a view of to strengthening the community. This was a quantitative research, realized with 298 subjects, who work in primary health care in the Marilias city. The instrument of data collection was a structured questionnaire which addressed socio-demographic characteristics of subjects, in addition includes an inventory of the five competences proposed by the Ministry of Health to the community health. The datas were organized with the SPSS software (version 17) and analyzed by simple frequency of occurrence the actions. The theoretical framework that supports the discussion of the results was based on the model of community organization and capacity building to assess the Promotion Health, proposed by Nutbeam (2004). The results show that the CHW have a practice focused on actions to prevent the disease. In the Health Promotion competence has been a balance between daily and rarely frequencies, that shows there is not standardization of the health promotion actions, wich a little bit contribute to the communities empowerment. In conclusion, the suggestion is the actions of the CHW take based on the reality of each area and identify the demands of both, the team and the community, in order to share scientific and popular knowledge in the search for community empowerment and confronting to the health-disease process.

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family health program health promotion agente comunitário de saúde community health work programa saúde da família promoção da saúde

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