Educação em saúde para prevenção de acidentes de trânsito: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

In Brazil and in the world the violence represent a serious public health problem with high impact on morbidity, mortality and quality of life of the population and have repercussions in decreasing life expectancy of adolescents and young people. The present study aims to discuss actions of health education developed by health professionals in order to prevent traffic accidents. It is an integrative review of literature, with search of articles indexed databases of Virtual Health Library, with the keywords "health education", "transit" and "traffic accidents". Were selected andanalyzed 16 articles. In all articles, the traffic accident is appointed as a public health problem, causing a strong impact on morbidity and mortality of the population. It might be noted that the existence of educational actions based on traditional practices, based on transmission of information. It is necessary to rethink traditionally proposed methods to be developed educational activities focused on training of emancipatory a more aware and supportive citizen, as required by the traffic. Wemust also intensify scientific production focused on the realization of educational activities for health professionals for the prevention of traffic accidents.