Propostas de intervenção em grupos de educação em saúde no Programa de Saúde da Família no Brasil

Abstract

Working with groups is one of the charges of the Family Health Program, where educational practices in health care are teaching activities geared to users, in order to build knowledge from information and experiences they bring. The technical group is not focused on people individually or in group dynamics, but in the process of integration and user participation within the group. The advantages of performing groups are to facilitate the collective construction of knowledge and reflection about the reality experienced by its members, as well as to allow the breaking of the vertical relationship (professional user) and facilitate the expression of needs, expectations and anxieties. Thus, this study aims to know, through literature review, the different groups of educational practices in health education conducted by the Basic Health Units We conducted a search of articles in the period from January to April 2012, the databases SciELO and LILACS via the Virtual Health Library in the Portuguese language, between the years 2004 to 2012, using the descriptors of the Family Health Program, Health Education, Nursing, and self-help groups. From exploratory and selective readings, eight articles, which were read in full and considered highly relevant for understanding the theme. The health education group is a proposal used by primary health care within the context of UBS, bringing positive benefits for participants who participate in this collective action. The articles show that there are differences as regards the duration time of driving groups, the interval between one group and another, among other things. One can therefore say that the work groups of health education needs to be further explored towards a standardization of procedures concerning the composition and attributes used in the construction process and participation of groups proposed.