Ações de educação permanente na saúde pública brasileira: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

The permanent health education was created, in an attempt to make public health a network of teaching and learning in work performance, expanding the links between training, management, care and participation in this specific area of knowledge and practice through mediations promoted by health education. However, there is a need to increase knowledge on the actions taken by the practice of permanent education in the field of public health. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze the actions of permanent education conducted in the area of public health in Brazil. This was an exploratory-descriptive research, of the kind integrative review, conducted in October 2013, no time cutting and oriented from the following question: which actions of permanent education has been conducted in the area of public health in Brazil? The study population was made up of the theme related permanent education in to public health consulted the databases SciELO, LILACS and CAPES Journal Portal scientific data production. The sample consisted of 16 articles pertaining to areas and Interdisciplinary and Nursing in CAPES, with qualis: B1, B2, B4, B5, and the journal Interface: Communication, Health, Education, showed that most publications on this topic. It was found that the evolution of the number of publication over the years did not appear continuously and incrementally. Most articles had authors with public and private bond, linked to the area of public health, preventive medicine and nursing. If on one hand the articles showed changes in the context of health and professional education, on the other has been found that there are still challenges to be overcome. It is for forming agents establish an educational process that allows the work health think for themselves, face the contradictions of society and use new technologies to understand it and transform it.