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Competences in health promotion in the environmental education practices of community health agents

2021; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL; Volume: 42; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/1983-1447.2021.20200053

1983-1447

Kelly Fernanda Silva Santana, Lucas Dias Soares Machado, Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa Machado, María Socorro de Araújo Dias, Lucilane Maria Sales da Silva, Maria do Socorro Vieira Lopes,

Environmental Education and Sustainability

To recognize the domains of competencies in promoting health in the environmental education practices performed by community health agents.A mixed study, which adopted the Developing Competencies and Professional Standards for Health Promotion Capacity Building in Europe (CompHP) as a theoretical framework, conducted in Crato, Ceará, with 16 community health agents, based on semi-structured interviews and data organization through the ALCESTE software.The following domains of competencies in health promotion were evidenced: partnership, possibility of changes, and diagnosis. We recognize evidence signaling other domains, although with less statistical significance, such as: communication, planning and implementation, with a view to developing environmental education activities.There is a mobilization of a limited number of health promotion competences in the environmental education practices developed by community health agents, which requires the wholeness of these elements to implement health promotion practices and, thus, positive transformations on the environment and health.