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 use of active methods in the health worker training process is a guideline that is recommended under the National Continuing Education in Health Policy (PNEPS) for National Health System (SUS) employees. In this study, the authors created an educational intervention for community health agents (CHA) regarding care aimed at children/families with asthma. The aim is to describe an educational action involving community health workers about asthmarelated knowledge, adopting the National Policy on Continuing Education in Health in the context of primary care. This was a 'quantiqualitative' study, with pretest and posttest assessments filled in by the community health workers them-selves, in addition to active approaches in three experiential focus groups, which had their activities recorded and transcribed for later data analysis using the content analysis methodology in accordance with the thematic mode proposed by Bardin. The CHA's knowledge about the myths related to asthma increased after the educational activity. The following themes emerged from the focus groups: Health education for the prevention of respiratory diseases; Meaning attributed to asthma; Firecrackers: demystifying concepts; Trigger factors for asthma; Adapting preventive care; Assessing the knowledge built. The use of active methodologies favored the development of skills among the CHAs, arousing motivation in the educational approach with children/families with asthma.
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The investigation regarding the quality of life of science teachers and the search for improvements that ameliorate these professionals' performance in primary education schools can be a way to reduce inequalities in education in Brazil and help teachers progress, not only from the educational but also from the social viewpoint. This study aimed to analyze indicators of physical and mental quality of life among science teachers in a public school located in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The information that was assessed included the demographic, economic, occupational and domestic characteristics, data on physical exertion and health, on mental health conditions, as well as the medical diagnoses most frequently mentioned by the teachers ever since they started working in the profession. The teachers brought up several complaints about their health and quality of life, such as nervousness; hoarseness; back, arm and leg pain; and tingling and swelling in the legs. It was concluded that knowledge of this evidence may contribute to preparing measures for the systematic reorganization of the work and directly influence the teachers' quality of life, affording them better performance in the activity of educating.
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Given the dimensions of humanization in both the care and in the training of health professionals, the curriculum reforms implemented nationally and the educational project restructuring experience at the school under review, this article sought to analyze the medical students' views regarding the experiences that enabled them to develop content, skills and behaviors aimed at humanization. The authors conducted a qualitative study among 63 sophomore and senior students based on their accounts of significant experiences involving care and receptivity. The analysis was based on the symbolic content of the essays and focused on educational, psychological and ethical aspects involved. An attempt was made to broaden the diversity of viewpoints and add value to messages that showed perceptions, impressions and intuitions. It was shown that most striking ones were practical activities that took place in different scenarios, when students were required to monitor, assigned responsibilities related to, and came into contact with suffering caused by disease and death. By employing academic and professional models, or in the direct relationship with patients and families, such situations create movements of disturbance and unrest and direct possible senses towards humanization.
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This article discusses the possibilities of including the performing arts in professional health education based on the aesthetic and pedagogical proposal set forth by Augusto Boal. The polytechnic concept, by advocating that workers' training include an integration of work, science and culture, opens space for new possibilities in this field. Authors such as Paulo Freire, in the field of education, and Augusto Boal, in theater, converge towards the prospect of the workers building both a culture and aesthetics of their own to reflect their world view. Our goal was to think about how Augusto Boal's theatrical propositions may be appropriate for the field of health education in an attempt to establish relationships and affinities between these two practices, from the perspective of health worker education, that they will provide the professionals with a more humanistic type of training that will extend beyond the labor market's more immediate requirements.
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The informal caregiver arises from the need to care for sick and elderly in their homes with the task of assisting with medications, hygiene and food without payment. This kind of aid raises overhead in physical, psychological and financial. From the quality of care emphasizes the need to look at and assist caregivers in helping hard their patients, which most are elderly. The aim is to present the perceptions experienced by informal caregivers, as well as recognition of the same burdens that affect them holistically: emotional, physical, financial and the importance of developing coping strategies through training on how to better care. The interviewed in the research belong to the North and Central Portugal, answer to the survey adapted from The Zarit Burden Interview. The interviews were analyzed with the support of NVivo 8 software. The data indicate that informal caregivers face more types of physical and emotional than financial burden. However, they stressed that despite the difficulties like taking care of their families. About being invited to participate in training on how to best care, some have confirmed their interest. We found that informal caregivers are lacking of an education that enables them to better care for preventing unsafe consequences.
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This article reports on the experience of returning knowledge produced through an educational research action in health carried out in a local community and shows that the dialogue afforded by problematization allows for opportunities for collective reflection on problems experienced by everyone, offering conditions for the development of citizens who are more participatory, more critical and, particularly, more active in confronting their realities. The goal was to discuss with the population the relationship there is between houseflies and environmental health, bringing up issues relating to health and environment in the Morada do Sol Garden and Park Residencial Francisco Belo Galindo neighborhoods, in the city of Presidente Prudente, state of São Paulo, Brazil. To achieve this goal, the research action approach was used based on Paulo Freire's popular education theoretical framework, debating health conditions in impoverished periurban areas and analyzing the experience of coordinating social players to solve their health issues. At the end, the authors bring up a few aspects that were seized in the investigation of the community health educational processes, by which, starting from the reflections on the environment, health and environmental problems affecting the wider community were unveiled.
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Health is determined by social, economic, educational, political and environmental conditions and, as such, it ranges well beyond a solely biological dimension. This article attempts to establish an interpretative reflection on the principles of the NHS and to show the interface of such principles with the hospital class proposal, a type of special education that encourages the construction of knowledge, training and the teaching of a set of skills to contribute to development in childhood. This is an exercise of reasoning conceived to understand the role played by the hospital class in the achievement of comprehensive health care in Brazil. Providing educational activities in hospitals allows hospitalized children and adolescents to carry on with their learning processes.
Review
Review
Ensaio
The purpose of this essay is to show the importance of discussing the relationship among the body, work and education. The goal is to make an analysis based on reflections concerning the 'body at work' and the 'body for work.' The essay shows that the relationship among the body, work and education is an issue that can enrich reflections on the body, on society from a Marxist viewpoint and, also, on matters that are important to those who are concerned with the body dimension in education.
Experience Report
This article aims to cast a critical eye on the preparation process used for a set of teaching materials in health education, which was produced from 2007 at the Federal University of São João del Rei for use in a program aimed at combating intestinal parasites. The materials were analyzed in order to address the strengths and weaknesses that were found. As a result, such materials were reworked for use as educational media that respect identities and contribute to building knowledge on health. It is expected that the proposals that were made for material redesign and correction, along with the positive characteristics that were analyzed, may contribute to the production of new materials and contribute to improving the supply of products that mediate the process of building knowledge in health.