Projeto de intervenção: as práticas educativas como estratégia social na prevenção e combate da obesidade em crianças e adolescentes

Abstract

Obesity is an energy metabolic disorder, characterized as chronic, complex disease of multifactorial etiology; and that usually occurs by the association of several factors. In terms of obesity, reflections on childhood reality and youth in the city of San Sebastian / Alagoas and its determinants and social distribution demonstrate the need for more effective strategies. The study emphasizes the health care in order to research and implementation of measures for the prevention of obesity. The Programa de Saúde na Escola (PSE), was established with the purpose of the integral formation of students through prevention, promotion and health care. The objective of this study was to elaborate a Nursing Intervention Plan of obesity in identifying students at a school in São Sebastião / AL. The study was characterized as Literature Review on the obesity. The action plan will be carried out using the method of Planejamento Estratégico Situacional (PES), which takes as its starting point the complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty characteristics of social processes. It was determined the "critical nodes", and developed an Intervention Plan for 'poor eating habits, Lifestyle inappropriate: Causes of obesity/overweight; and Self esteem in decreased level'. It is essential to reflect on the educational practice of hospital nurses, the importance of extra actions walls and the relevance of the need for analysis of health situations across catchment area in which they provide health services.