VOICING, PAPER AND BRUSH TO CHILDREN IN BASIC HEALTH UNIT: A REPORT OF EXPERIENCE

• Main Authors: Hélem Soares de Meneses, Breno de Oliveira Ferreira, Leonardo Sales Lima, Tânia Rodrigues Furtado
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade de Brasília 2014-05-01
• Series: Revista Gestão & Saúde
• Subjects: Supervised; Community Social Psychology; Health Education; Popular Education.
• Online Access: http://gestaoesaude.unb.br/index.php/gestaoesaude/article/view/714/pdf

The paper reports the experience of Supervised Internship in Community Social Psychology from the State University of Piauí (UESPI) performed in a Basic Health Unit of Teresina, Piauí. The objectives of the internship were: insert themselves in everyday community, collect and interpret data from this reality, rise possible demands of work and develop intervention activities aimed at education and health promotion. There were home visits, counseling, referrals and especially playful activities with children in the waiting room. The creation of educational and preventive spaces in the community through popular education contributed to improving the quality of services and allowed a holistic and differentiated children who attend this service attention. Health promotion that subjects provided an opportunity to express their own perceptions of reality, with the prospect of linking health and living conditions, sharing the cultural, economic, psychological, social and environmental situations that have a serious impact on the health- disease process.