As ações educativas em saúde desenvolvidas em âmbito prisional: revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

The work object of this study is the work of education in health,resigned as an educational practice in health, developed in theBrazilian prison context , taking as starting point the National HealthPlan for the Penitentiary System (PNSSP), 2003. This work isjustified since, in view of educational practices in health education,educational activities should be an inherent strategic guidelines ofthe National Health Plan of Prisons practice in order to promote theemancipation and empowerment of individuals to respond to healthproblems in the prison population. Represents a challenge for healthprofessionals ownership of educational strategies that can assistincarcerated , effectively , leading to a healthier life . Thus , this studyhas as main objective to investigate scientific evidence abouteducational health actions in the prison system . For this , it uses anintegrative review as a research method , since through this is todeepen knowledge on a chosen based on previous work theme . TheLILACS and SciELO databases were reviewed for the period fromjanuary 2003 to january 2014, the final sample consisted of 4 papersselected . The results showed that thus, we found that, given thesmall number of studies, we can realize the paucity of publishedscientific articles on educational activities in health, resigned as ahealth practice of health professionals , developed in the Brazilianprison under . Educational activities developed in the prison contextare still reduced compared to the assumptions PNSSP, since theyear 2003. It is observed that the educational activities are stillcarried out in a timely and specific manner not being conducted andimplemented in accordance with the needs and experiences ofeveryday life incarcerated.