Permanent Education in relation to Family Health Strategy: a descriptive-exploratory study

Abstract

Study of Permanent Education (PE) in relation to Family Health Strategy (FHS). Issue: the existence of conflict between professionals and authors about the concepts of health education processes and the impact of these conflicts on the implementation of PE. Aims: to identify the concept of PE as understood by the multiprofessional FHS team; to experiment with a technology with the group in order to enlarge the concept of PE; to develop a PE experience within FHS. Method: field study, descriptive, exploratory, with qualitative approach. Results: the study produced three categories: Permanent Education in the daily practice of health services: concept understood by professionals: the Health Ministry policy. Discussion: the concept of PE became clearer to the majority of the professionals who participated in the intervention. Conclusion: the experiment was significant and gave the possibility for the team to consider and rethink the unit working process