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THE HEALTH SCHOOL PROGRAMME: A HEALTH PROMOTION STRATEGY IN PRIMARY CARE IN BRAZIL

2015; UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7322/jhgd.96709

ISSN

2175-3598

Autores

Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa Machado, Fabiane do Amaral Gubert, Anya Pimentel Gomes Fernandes Vieira‐Meyer, Yana Paula Coêlho Correia Sampaio, María Socorro de Araújo Dias, Ana Mattos Brito de Almeida Brito De Almeida, Ana Patrícia Pereira Morais, Anamaria Cavalcante e Silva, Jocileide Sales Campos, Maristela Inês Osawa Vasconcelos, Emília Soares Chaves,

Tópico(s)

School Health and Nursing Education

Resumo

Introduction: the Health School Programme (HSP) should be understood as a permanent development process. In this context, the actions of a policy aimed at children and adolescentsare paramount in the HSP. Objective: to identify and describe the actions developed by the Family Health Group in the HSP, from the National Programme for ImprovingAccess and Quality of Primary Care (PIPCAQ). Methods: this cross-sectional research used secondary data collected fromthe 17,202 groups who joined PIPCAQ in 2012. Results: all regions showed significant results concerning the execution of school activities. the Northern region was the one that performed most school actions (80.5%), followed by the Northeast, Midwest, South and Southeast, respectively. However, some items, such as professional training in education and health work need to be streng the ned. Conclusion: HSP in Brazil has mobilised significant actions, even though it has not happened in homogeneously in all Brazilian regions.

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