Educação em saúde e sua evolução nas últimas décadas: revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

This work has as its theme the Health Education and its evolution in recent decades: an integrative literature review. What consisted of an integrative literature review in order to contribute with knowledge so that the user can understand the importance of health-disease process in which it is inserted, thus becoming co-responsible for their health and consequent improvement in their quality of life . The aim was to discuss how education is happening in health and its evolution in recent decades. The surveys were conducted of publications between the months of October and November 2011, the databases LILACS and Scielo. The samples consisted of 14 (fourteen) articles, 02 (two) thesis and a dissertation, and to collect the data we used a specific tool for the study. The results showed that the journals that most published articles on the subject were the area of general health, especially health and interdisciplinary conference. The publications have focused from the year 2001, with greater frequency distribution in southeastern Brazil, the main methodological design research literature. We believe that health education has undergone a long evolutionary process until it reached the current reality. Nursing has played an important role in this process, since its activity allows direct contact with clients/ patients for a longer period of time. It was also observed that the traditional methods, often contribute to non-adherence to the knowledge of the population in health education activities