Abstract
to compare health promotion actions carried out by Family Health teams in Ceará, linked to the School Health Program. a cross-sectional study involving the first and second cycles of an external assessment of 910 and 1,626 teams from 184 municipalities, which joined the Brazilian National Program for Improvement of Access and Quality of Primary Care. Eight clinical assessment and seven health promotion indicators were assessed, together with health professionals working in schools. the interviewees were nurses (95.6% and 98.3%). Between the cycles, there was an increase in clinical assessment (78.7% and 91.3%), health promotion and disease prevention (82.5% and 89.3%) and survey of students for follow-up (41.4% and 66.4%) in schools. health actions at school advanced between cycles, with nurses as protagonists in school health, which can reduce vulnerabilities in children and adolescents and qualify Primary Care.
Highlights
IntroductionThe World Health Organization has strengthened the Adolescent Friendly Health Services initiative, which aims to sensitize health services to adequately welcome adolescents, offering actions based on real needs and recommending public policy implementation and shared work between health units and the school space as part of successful strategies[1].Based on this premise, in Brazil, the School Health Program (PSE - Programa Saúde na Escola), an intersectoral policy developed by the Ministries of Health and Education, has worked on comprehensive training of students, through health promotion and disease prevention and health care actions for children, adolescents and young people, with a view to coping with the vulnerabilities of this period of life[2,3].This program is part of strategies aimed at achieving the Brazilian National Health Promotion Policy (PNPS - Política Nacional de Promoção da Saúde)(4-5), being one of the most prominent public policies for childhood and adolescence in Brazil[6], providing clinical assessment actions for students, health promotion and disease/grievance prevention and training of education, health and youth professionals
This program is part of strategies aimed at achieving the Brazilian National Health Promotion Policy (PNPS - Política Nacional de Promoção da Saúde)(4-5), being one of the most prominent public policies for childhood and adolescence in Brazil[6], providing clinical assessment actions for students, health promotion and disease/grievance prevention and training of education, health and youth professionals
The percentage of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) who reported performing actions at school went from 85.2% to 92.9%, and in the clinical assessment, there was an increase from 78.7% to 91.3%, while the proportion that performed actions to promote health and disease prevention increased from 82.5% to 89.3%
Summary
The World Health Organization has strengthened the Adolescent Friendly Health Services initiative, which aims to sensitize health services to adequately welcome adolescents, offering actions based on real needs and recommending public policy implementation and shared work between health units and the school space as part of successful strategies[1].Based on this premise, in Brazil, the School Health Program (PSE - Programa Saúde na Escola), an intersectoral policy developed by the Ministries of Health and Education, has worked on comprehensive training of students, through health promotion and disease prevention and health care actions for children, adolescents and young people, with a view to coping with the vulnerabilities of this period of life[2,3].This program is part of strategies aimed at achieving the Brazilian National Health Promotion Policy (PNPS - Política Nacional de Promoção da Saúde)(4-5), being one of the most prominent public policies for childhood and adolescence in Brazil[6], providing clinical assessment actions for students, health promotion and disease/grievance prevention and training of education, health and youth professionals. The World Health Organization has strengthened the Adolescent Friendly Health Services initiative, which aims to sensitize health services to adequately welcome adolescents, offering actions based on real needs and recommending public policy implementation and shared work between health units and the school space as part of successful strategies[1] Based on this premise, in Brazil, the School Health Program (PSE - Programa Saúde na Escola), an intersectoral policy developed by the Ministries of Health and Education, has worked on comprehensive training of students, through health promotion and disease prevention and health care actions for children, adolescents and young people, with a view to coping with the vulnerabilities of this period of life[2,3]. In 2011, the Ministry of Health launched the Brazilian National Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care (PMAQ-AB - Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade da Atenção Básica), seeking to facilitate users’access to health facilities and improve the quality of Primary Care (PC), through the institutionalization of[7] assessment, including actions under PSE, throughout Brazil
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