Atuação fonoaudiológica no núcleo de apoio à Saúde Da Família

Abstract

The speech therapist is a professional who works in human communication process. The Support Center for Family Health opening at 2008 expanded its scope of action in public health. From the perspective of knowing performance aspects, this study objective is todescribe educational activities that have been developed in this core area of speech. Thus, integrative literature review method with research articles was used in the BIREME database, Lilacs and SciELO database , using the keywords: speech therapy, family health, health education, primary health care and health promotion. In total, we obtained a population of 152 articles of which 18 were selected in according with the inclusion criteria. Final sample of 18 (100 %) articles, 9 ( 50 % ) are found in LILACS and 9 ( 50 % ) based on SciELO . As a result it was found that the articles were written mostly by professional doctors 9 ( 50 % ) , speech pathologists 13 ( 72.2 % ) , working in public health 14 ( 77.7 % ) , with most studies primary / qualitative 11 (61.1 %). With this study it was concluded that the predominant actions in the area of speech NASF are health promotion, home visits and matrix support offered to the Family Health Teams.