Abstract
To reflect on the nursing and pandemic of COVID-19 considering health education, health promotion, and the Ottawa Charter action areas. A theoretical-reflexive study on health education and health promotion concepts and the areas of action presented in the Ottawa Charter. Educational actions are present in the contexts of epidemics and pandemics, as well as in the work of nurses, who need to be increasingly based on dialogue and individual and collective empowerment to enable users to adopt healthy and preventive behaviors - in this case, concerning COVID19. However, this professional needs effective and efficient public policy actions and measures based on scientific assumptions of health promotion. Final considerations: The actions of health education need to be increasingly valued because knowledge can be considered the first "vaccine" to combat any pandemic.
Highlights
The pandemic of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) incites us to reflect on the actions of health education developed by nursing in the process of building knowledge, aiming at health promotion with autonomy and co-responsibility of people in their care, in order to achieve comprehensive care directed to the needs affected in the health-disease process
It is noteworthy that the educational actions and strategies concerning these areas of health promotion drive the necessary transformations to change the population’s health reality, once these practices are characterized by having a holistic conception of the human being, an expanded concept of health, intersectoral approach, individual and collective empowerment, social participation, search for equity, and actions on the Social Determinants of Health (SDH)(2)
We reflect on health education as a primordial action for professional nursing practice aimed at promoting health and fighting the pandemic of COVID-19, taking into consideration Ottawa Charter areas of action, and highlighting the moments in this journey when it is possible to find the expansion of autonomy, empowerment, and healthy behavior
Summary
The pandemic of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) incites us to reflect on the actions of health education developed by nursing in the process of building knowledge, aiming at health promotion with autonomy and co-responsibility of people in their care, in order to achieve comprehensive care directed to the needs affected in the health-disease process. It is noteworthy that the educational actions and strategies concerning these areas of health promotion drive the necessary transformations to change the population’s health reality, once these practices are characterized by having a holistic conception of the human being, an expanded concept of health, intersectoral approach, individual and collective empowerment, social participation, search for equity, and actions on the Social Determinants of Health (SDH)(2). In this context, the nursing professional develops in their daily life several activities related to assistance at various levels of attention in health networks, covering complex challenges in care, teaching, research, and management(4). We reflect on health education as a primordial action for professional nursing practice aimed at promoting health and fighting the pandemic of COVID-19, taking into consideration Ottawa Charter areas of action, and highlighting the moments in this journey when it is possible to find the expansion of autonomy, empowerment, and healthy behavior
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