A importância de estratégias para implementação da suplementação férrica em crianças nos serviços de saúde

Abstract

Currently, education provides new directions and views. It is understood as a social, popular, broad and complex process. Health education has been following this new view of social transformation. As an integral item of health promotion, health education is considered important action related to the living conditions and health of the population, which should be performed in an emancipatory and transformative way, covering all subjects of the process. This work is an integrative review of the strategies that can be traced to increase the adhesion of professionals to Iron Supplementation National Program (In Portuguese, Programa Nacional de Suplementação Férrica, PNSF). It has been used in this search, descriptors as; health education, nursing, iron-deficiency anemia, and iron supplementation, isolated or combined among them in the database LILACS , MEDLINE and SCIELO. The inclusion criteria has been defined as scientific publications from 2010 until 2013, available in full version in the three databases; Portuguese, Spanish and English, that address the strategies that will be drawn upon the Iron Supplementation National Program (In Portuguese, Programa Nacional de Suplementação Férrica, PNSF). In conclusion, the most important strategies used are; health education and guidance to families and PNSF, training and continuing education for professionals involved users, reformulation of public policy and health services, with community involvement.