Alimentação saudável no contexto escolar: elaboração e implantação de um projeto de intervenção em uma escola municipal de Dom Cavati - Minas Gerais

Abstract

Childhood obesity is increasing worldwide, which can cause in the long run, serious repercussions on the health and appearance of chronic diseases in adolescents. Through the development of the “Health Program in school” in the Dom Cavati - MG it identified as one of the priority problems and high need for intervention, the high consumption of processed foods high in sugars and lipids by students. Whereas chronic diseases today have been responsible for spending much of the resources available for public health in Brazil and the need for early intervention as the advance of these diseases, this study aims to draw up an intervention plan to reduce consumption processed foods rich in sugars and lipids by the students of the 4th year of teaching in the Municipal School "Alverino Moreira Chaves," in the municipality of Dom Cavati / MG. For this work we used the Strategic Situational Planning, prioritizing the problem of bad eating habits by students in the school environment. It was made an identification of the critical nodes and created the operational plan, with reference to the planning module and evaluation of health actions. The elaborate action plan will enable better control of the actions for addressing priority issues of the coverage area, thus ensuring quality at work. It concludes that it is essential a continuous education in nutrition, aimed at nutritional education in order to prevent current or future health problems and promote early treatment when already installed.