Projeto de intervenção: a qualificação profissional do agente comunitário de saúde em Porto Alegre-RS

Abstract

The professional qualifications of Community Health Agents consists of a strategic action proposed by the Ministry of Health, in order to improve practices in the context of Community Health Agents teams Family Health Strategy in the country. In addition, and without minor qualification of Community Health Agents is a possibility of inclusion and valuation of these workers. This qualification has not been performed in its entirety in the RS. It is proposed in this study an intervention project that aims to facilitate the achievement of professional qualification course of Community Health Agents 400h for the city of Porto Alegre. This study was conducted in two stages. At first there was a reflection on the critical nodes that prevent the realization of the course. Based on this discussion we identified the problem situation to be worked: not performing the qualification course of 400h for Community Health Workers in Porto Alegre - RS. In a second step, we elaborated the project intervention from the problem situation defined. At the end of the study it can be concluded that the qualification of ACS is a key strategy for qualifying practices in Primary Health Care. However, the arrangements and joints, mainly carried out within the state management of the Unified Health System, not prioritized this strategy in recent years. The possibilities for achieving the qualification of Community Health Agents are improving the dialogue between the coordination of the School of Health and effective prioritization of this agenda by state and municipal managers, in order to overcome lengthy bureaucratic processes that prevent the realization of the proposal.