Laying the Foundations of Continuing Education in Health in the Family Health Strategy

Primary healthcare must guarantee health and well-being for the community as a whole, ensuring equity and quality in different responses. For this goal to be achieved, teams must be trained and integrated, and service flows must be functional. Continuing education in health, as a form of training pr...

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Main Authors: Cleson Moura, Katia Moreira, Andreia Costa, Cristina Lavareda Baixinho, Maria Adriana Henriques, Marcelle Miranda da Silva
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-07-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/8/521
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author Cleson Moura
Katia Moreira
Andreia Costa
Cristina Lavareda Baixinho
Maria Adriana Henriques
Marcelle Miranda da Silva
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Andreia Costa
Cristina Lavareda Baixinho
Maria Adriana Henriques
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description Primary healthcare must guarantee health and well-being for the community as a whole, ensuring equity and quality in different responses. For this goal to be achieved, teams must be trained and integrated, and service flows must be functional. Continuing education in health, as a form of training professionals in the workplace, helps to center responses around the needs and preferences of people and families, and to balance the fulfillment of demands by using better work management as a starting point. The objectives of the present qualitative study were to elucidate the meaning given by health professionals who developed their activities in the Family Health Strategy in order to continue education in health, and to discuss the qualification and structuring of work management with this type of education as a background. The methodology used was Straussian grounded theory. Thirty professionals in four Brazilian health units who had experience in the family health field participated in the study. Data were collected between June 2018 and May 2019. Based on three categories, the emerging substantive theory was as follows: laying the foundations of continuing education in health in a collective dialogic and dialectical effort to contribute to the qualification of the work processes in the Family Health Strategy. The professionals’ accounts showed that they recognize the importance of continuing education in health and the need to discuss it, given its potential to transform and to assist in the education of professionals with autonomy in the management of their work processes.
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spelling doaj.art-3b3c86cea1f34a1682fb599acab5d71c2023-12-03T13:33:44ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022022-07-0112852110.3390/educsci12080521Laying the Foundations of Continuing Education in Health in the Family Health StrategyCleson Moura0Katia Moreira1Andreia Costa2Cristina Lavareda Baixinho3Maria Adriana Henriques4Marcelle Miranda da Silva5Anna Nery Nursing School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-901, RJ, BrazilDepartamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho 76801-058, RO, BrazilNursing School of Lisbon, Nursing Research, Innovation and Development Centre of Lisbon (CIDNUR), 1600-190 Lisboa, PortugalNursing School of Lisbon, Nursing Research, Innovation and Development Centre of Lisbon (CIDNUR), 1600-190 Lisboa, PortugalNursing School of Lisbon, Nursing Research, Innovation and Development Centre of Lisbon (CIDNUR), 1600-190 Lisboa, PortugalAnna Nery Nursing School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-901, RJ, BrazilPrimary healthcare must guarantee health and well-being for the community as a whole, ensuring equity and quality in different responses. For this goal to be achieved, teams must be trained and integrated, and service flows must be functional. Continuing education in health, as a form of training professionals in the workplace, helps to center responses around the needs and preferences of people and families, and to balance the fulfillment of demands by using better work management as a starting point. The objectives of the present qualitative study were to elucidate the meaning given by health professionals who developed their activities in the Family Health Strategy in order to continue education in health, and to discuss the qualification and structuring of work management with this type of education as a background. The methodology used was Straussian grounded theory. Thirty professionals in four Brazilian health units who had experience in the family health field participated in the study. Data were collected between June 2018 and May 2019. Based on three categories, the emerging substantive theory was as follows: laying the foundations of continuing education in health in a collective dialogic and dialectical effort to contribute to the qualification of the work processes in the Family Health Strategy. The professionals’ accounts showed that they recognize the importance of continuing education in health and the need to discuss it, given its potential to transform and to assist in the education of professionals with autonomy in the management of their work processes.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/8/521educationpublic health professionalhealth promotionfamily healthnursingprimary healthcare
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Maria Adriana Henriques
Marcelle Miranda da Silva
Laying the Foundations of Continuing Education in Health in the Family Health Strategy
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education
public health professional
health promotion
family health
nursing
primary healthcare
title Laying the Foundations of Continuing Education in Health in the Family Health Strategy
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public health professional
health promotion
family health
nursing
primary healthcare
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