Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
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The inclusion of Oral Health Teams in the Family Health Strategy represents a shift in public health. This study aims to get to know the views of graduates and coordinators of the technical training provided by the Technical Health School for Oral Health Technicians in municipalities in Northern Minas Gerais based on the Smiling Brazil Program. The methodology that was used is exploratory and descriptive, with a qualitative emphasis. The graduates claim that taking the course benefits the service provided to the population through actions in health education, it affords greater efficiency and understanding, and improves the quality of activities done in clinics. Coordinators and graduates emphasize the improvements that take place in biosecurity actions. The perception of the oral health teams, represented by the graduates of the technical course in oral health and by the coordinators of the teams in which they were in, confirms the hypothesis that investing in education for Unified Health System workers helps improve service quality.
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The article presents a mapping of the formal insertion of people with disabilities in the Brazilian labor market. Data provided in the 2010 Census by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics with respect to the functionality and disability variables were used. Additionally, also used was information contained in the Ministry of Labor's Annual Social Information Report, which, from 2007 went on to publish the number and profile of jobs held by people with disabilities. Such mapping is preceded by a section on general lines of the historical context of the social inclusion of people with disabilities, as well as by an overview of the laws in the field of 'affirmative action'. A review of the data shows a very low level of participation of people with disabilities in the Brazilian formal labor market, one that concentrates mostly on poor, discontinuous and informal activities (or inactive, without holding occupations).
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Se trata de una investigación-intervención, de tipo apoyo. En esta investigación se evaluaron los efectos del curso-intervención Cogestión de la Clínica Ampliada y Compartida, especialmente en lo tocante a la incorporación de saberes que ayudan a los profesionales a desarrollar la capacidad de trabajar en red, en equipo y con cogestión del trabajo en la salud. El curso se ofreció a los profesionales integrantes de los equipos del Centro de Salud Aeropuerto y del Centro de Atención Psicosocial David Capistrano y a colaboradores institucionales del Distrito Sudoeste de Campinas, San Pablo. Para la producción de datos, se utilizaron dos técnicas: observación y realización de grupos focales de evaluación con los profesionales que participaron en el curso. Se constataron cambios relevantes en los profesionales en lo que respecta a las dimensiones clínica, política e institucional y del gobierno de sí mismos.
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This qualitative study aimed to get to know the conception and experience of 27 Family Health Strategy workers on health education. The development of problematizing, as thought by Paulo Freire, facilitated participatory group work. Two of the categories were discussed in this survey: Educational practices and their enigmas; and (re)signifying educational practices. The subjects that were brought up were encoded, decoded and critically unveiled, and the difficulties, possibilities and expectations of the educational action expressed. The results revealed the subjects' difficulties in different aspects of the educational act in their practices and how strong the remnants of a bank, preventive, and medicalized practice are. The reflection coming from this touched them, showing potential for the development of transformative educational practices and the need for continuing education in order to expand their dia-logical skills.
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This article aims to address a few aspects related to the lives of the community health workers in the city of São Carlos, São Paulo. Qualitative research was used to build this study, with the application of semi-structured interviews and thematic content analyses. Four categories resulted from the analysis: How I see my work; the difficulties and advantages of living in the neighborhood; the CHA in their different roles, and, ultimately, quality of life: life as it is. Being closer to the reality being studied enabled a view of the community health agents beyond the work dimension and highlighted aspects that particularize and set them apart from other professionals in the Unified Health System, namely: Being a worker, resident and user. We conclude that the community health agent needs to be understood based on the uniqueness of the profession, providing personal empowerment and a professional routine.
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The role played by radiologic nursing has grown significantly, rendering this professional an integral element of radiology and of diagnostic imaging. Since a professional with flaws in training is exposed to unnecessary risks, the importance of this work is the outcome of the need to disseminate knowledge about this area of expertise to future professionals. The purpose of this article is to get to know the diagnostic imaging work process offered to the students of the Technical Course in Nursing-Proeja at a public institution in the Metropolitan Region of Florianópolis, state of Santa Catarina. Action research was the methodology used. Three questionnaires were applied to course students and faculty in order to learn more about the needs of the course insofar as this topic is concerned. The results revealed a lag in training, since the subject is not addressed in class. Based on the needs shown by the research subjects, the training activities were planned in such a manner as to cover topics related to ionizing radiation, protection against radiation, the work of the nursing technician in this area, and the legislation. After the training, students showed greater security and interest in working with diagnostic imaging services as well as in maintaining a continuing education process. Thus, providing the training proved to be relevant to qualifying future professionals.
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This article presents an analysis of published scientific articles and of trends in scientific production on nursing, addressing the subjectivity in the work of nursing and the theoretical and methodological framework of ergology. The ergological perspective sees work as an essentially human activity that involves the worker's use of himself, mediated by the dynamic three-pole device. Articles, dissertations and theses were searched for in the Virtual Health Library, PubMed, and in the thesis database of the Ministry of Education's Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) from April to July 2011 and from February to April 2012. Sixty-nine published articles, 14 dissertations and eight theses were reviewed. The findings lead one to realize the importance of nurses using themselves in overcoming the gaps between prescribed and actual work. We conclude that further investments in studies on the nurses' relationship with their work, associated with the ergology referential, may explore how decision-making takes place, the meaning given to the experience and the singularities arising from the work practice.
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This article presents the findings of a research project undertaken at Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV) (Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation), which analyzed the Community Health Agents (CHA) technical course between 2008 and 2011. The research was developed from the point of view of CHAs, and also from the point of view of the other family health team members. The research used as guideline the modifications produced in the work process taking into account the changes introduced in the health care model that had been intended with the implementation of the Family Health Strategy. Thirty-two CHAs students of the course, eight members of their teams and two CHA members of the head office of SINDACS-RJ (Health Community Agents Trade Union - Rio de Janeiro) which were not students took part in the research. In general terms, the achievements that had been intended with the changes in the health care model were disputed by interviewees. As for the contribution the technical courses had on CHAs' performance, there is a clear contradiction between the perceptions of CHAs and that of physicians and nurses. While the latter observed few changes after CHAs took the technical course, the former unanimously pointed out changes not only in their work but also in their lives. The tension underlying the relations between the CHAs and the other team members appeared in the research results. Hence, there is a need to investigate into this matter.
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Based on the hot-button discussion about humane health care, this essay aims to discuss the approach to the necessary contribution of the theory of culture and taste education. Upon bringing up, from a historical and philosophical perspective, Goethe's concepts of Kultur and Bildung and the understanding that training is a result of taste education, we seek to think of the humanization of health professionals beyond the implementation of technical training policies applied in daily work as an effective personal training experience that goes through a cultural experience.
Experience Report
This article discusses the importance of music and body workshops in the training of health professionals. It presents and analyzes two workshops: "Clinic at the heart of music: Do you listen to what you hear?" and "The body and the clinic at the heart of music." Faculty, staff, and students of different undergraduate courses at the university took part in the workshops. Data produced from the mapping approach include the pulsating, powerful, creative and living body concepts; the fruitful relations between music, body work and clinical listening; the discussions on health and body integrality; reflections on scenarios that enable experimentation with listening and body in the training of health professionals, and the workshop as a training instrument focused on experience.