Programa saúde na escola em Belo Horizonte: ações de educação em saúde como instrumento de prevenção ao uso de drogas lícitas na adolescência.

Abstract

The Health at School Program advocates the development of health actions with students through health promotion practices, disease prevention, aggravate health. The professionals of this program have privileged access to the adolescent public, who usually do not attend health services, but are at school, a place where health education actions can be developed. The adolescence phase is marked by transformations and diverse resignifications. In the process of building a new identity, they have many doubts, fears and anxieties and at the same time are fearless and want to experience the new in opposition to established values. Owing to this scenario, this intervention project aims to promote actions at school that lead adolescents to reflect on positive choices for life such as avoiding the use of legal drugs. The project will be developed in a municipal elementary school in the city of Belo Horizonte and is adressed at ninth- grade teenagers. Eight meetings will be held in the workshop format where themes related to adolescence will be promoted, encouraging healthy lifestyle habits, but focusing on the theme of prevention of the use of licit drugs. We hope that the health professional appropriates the school space as a privileged place for health education.