Health promotion requires that the health care practice transcends the normative concepts of Medicine in its clinical and/or public health expressions, and needs to be constructed and reconstructed in recognition of the reality of patients’ life experiences. Thus, the objective of this article is to report the experience of developing activities of health promotion and disease prevention in a shared space of th...
Taking as a reference the National Permanent Health Education Policy (NPHEP), which seeks the training of workers according to the needs of the population, management and professionals, the objective of this study was to know and analyze the perception of the dental surgeon (DS) of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) on NPHEP. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional and observational quantitative study, with a samp...
O município de Fortaleza apresenta um quadro de situações laborais como uma alta demanda de tarefas e ambientes modificados, quanto a sua estrutura física e funcionamento setorial o que favorece uma condição de submissão dos profissionais aos riscos ergonômicos das unidades de atenção primária á saúde (UAPS). Caracteriza-se como quantitativo, descritivo, observacional e transversal. O objetivo do estudo foi ana...
A Política Nacional de Educação Permanente em Saúde (PNEPS) foi instituída como uma estratégia do SUS para a formação e desenvolvimento de trabalhadores para o setor da saúde. O Objetivo dessa pesquisa foi analisar a percepção dos profissionais da Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF) sobre a PNEPS. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, observacional e transversal. A população-alvo foi composta por médicos, enfermeiros...
The Permanent Health Education (EPS) is learning at work, where learning and teaching are incorporated into the organization and work processes. Thus began an EPS proposal in Fortaleza/CE, aiming to induce changes in the various courses of action of the professionals of the Family Health Strategy (FHS). A refresher course in Oral Health for three hundred Dental General Practioners (DGP) was performed. This is a...
The Unified Health System (SUS) has become the guiding principle of Health in Brazil since the 1988 Constitution, which created a challenge for the training of its professionals and brought the need to qualify them to meet satisfactorily the population. Thus, the National Policy of Permanent Education in Health (PNEPS) was established as an NHS strategy to provide training and development of workers in the heal...
The need to develop actions that target adolescents’ health has become imperative in the face of expressiveness they present for both the overall population as well as their significance in terms of future generation. The aim of this research is to report the work of health education with adolescents, accomplished through workshops, contributing to develop new activities seeking health promotion. This is a desc...
Leprosy is an infectious disease that has an impact from a physical, social and psychological standpoint. The scope of this study was to assess the self-perception on oral health and need for treatment in leprosy patients in the city of Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil. This is a crosssectional and descriptive study, where 100 leprosy patients were given a semi-structured questionnaire to fill out. The results...
A hanseníase é uma doença infecciosa crônica causada pela bactéria intracelular e acidorresistente Mycobacterium leprae, que acomete preferencialmente pele e nervos periféricos, com um grande potencial para desenvolver incapacidades físicas. Os objetivos deste trabalho foram verificar o conhecimento e atuação do cirurgião-dentista no controle e eliminação da hanseníase, na Secretaria Executiva Regional (SER) II...
A necessidade de desenvolvimento de ações direcionadas a saúde dos adolescentes tornou-se imperativa diante da expressividade destes em relação ao contingente populacional, assim como sua significância em termos de geração futura. Objetiva-se relatar o trabalho de educação em saúde com adolescentes, realizado por meio de oficinas, com vistas à promoção da saúde. Estudo descritivo referente a atividades do Progr...