A importância das ações de promoção da saúde realizadas pelo enfermeiro na equipe de saíde da família

Abstract

Health promotion consists of activities aimed at transforming the behavior of individuals, focusing on their lifestyles and locating them to the community. The programs and activities to promote health tend to focus on educational components, primarily related to behavioral risks that could be changed. The challenges for health promotion, particularly with the population, no doubt, are multiple, if we consider that the factors that put them at risk come from different levels in the context of his life, including family system from the micro to the macro social system, cultural, political and economic. Objective of this study is to investigate the scientific and documentary available about the importance of nurses in health promotion in Brazil, providing subsidies for public health practice . It is a descriptive work of the kind review of the literature, where books were consulted, articles , theses, dissertations and publications on the subject. It was concluded that the nurse has a social responsibility to contribute to the promotion of health through educational activities in the community. The work points to the need for direct intervention of the nurse in health promotion, as well as providing access for the synthesis of research results and insert them in nursing practice in public health.