O uso de tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC) em experiências de pós-graduação sobre promoção da saúde no Brasil e na Costa Rica

Abstract

Global Conferences on Health Promotion underscore the need for reorientation of services as a field of action in the area. In particular the Bangkok Charter mentions the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In this sense, ICT-based teaching emerges as a way to strengthen learning how to learn, also in the area of health promotion, theme still latent into graduation´s health course. Objective: To describe the use of ICT in post-graduate focusing on health promotion. Method: This is a descriptive analysis of teaching approaches supported by ICT in three experiments. The first, in the form of update / specialization (sensu lato), is part of the activities of the department of internal medicine and has been incorporating ICT throughout its 10 years of existence. The second experiment deals with a post-graduate course in the strict sense of the public health program, under theresponsibility of the preventive medicine department. Finally, we present the discipline graduate also strict sense of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Costa Rica. Results: We present summary tables on the use of different ICT as well as the desired educational objectives and the nature of the activity. Conclusion: The current use of ICT highlights the opportunity and incentive for space construction and re-construction of knowledge in Health Promotion. Recognize the potential and limits of the use of ICT contributes to interprofessional education of health promoters with emphasis in a transformative education.