PROGRAMA SAÚDE NA ESCOLA E A SAÚDE BUCAL DOS ALUNOS EM UMA ESCOLA PÚBLICA EM GOIANA-PERNAMBUCO

Abstract

Health education has always been linked to disease prevention, as a way of modifying behaviors identified as risk factors for certain diseases. identified as risk factors for certain diseases. diseases. It is, fundamentally, an educational activity designed to broaden the population's knowledge of health and to develop the understanding knowledge of the population in relation to health and to develop understanding and personal skills that promote health. and skills that promote health. These activities can be useful in drawing attention to the economic and environmental causes of health. economic and environmental causes of health and disease and, to this end, they should include in their content, information that, for example information that, for example, demonstrates the political feasibility and organizational possibilities of various forms of targeted action. the political feasibility and organizational possibilities of various forms of action aimed at achieving health-promoting environmental, economic or social changes. or social changes that favor health. In this way, health education and health promotion are closely intertwined, i.e., health education and health promotion are the active participation of a well-informed population promotes health, and education is a tool for health promotion. health, and education is a vitally important tool in this process. This research was qualitative in nature and investigated the level of satisfaction of the students of a public school in Goiana school in Goiana - Pernambuco, in relation to the School Health Program Team, especially within the perspective of Oral Health. especially within the perspective of Oral Health.