Abstract
This paper has the purpose of discussing the performance as health educators in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and also emphasizing the importance of the educational process for health workforce qualification as well as management device of health systems. This performance has been a strong strategy for SUS implementation process in Brazil.
Highlights
The processes of continuing education of health professionals are recognized as key strategies to achieve the development of health systems (OMS, 2007)
Such processes are related to the achievement of the millennium development goals (MDGs), as are a prerequisite for improving the planning, as well facilitating interactions between areas and sectors, health and education (WHO, 2013)
This process represents a strong strategy for the consolidation of the health system
Summary
The processes of continuing education of health professionals are recognized as key strategies to achieve the development of health systems (OMS, 2007). Based upon the contribution of the above authors, education is seen in a critical perspective as a characteristic of the human species, a social value and a right of every citizen going beyond the acquisition of knowledge for solving problems or for development of skills required for the job. According to this line of thought the education’s purpose is the full development of a person, reaching all human potentialities (Saviani, 2003). Each one has a particular process producing different results, for all of them, education is the specific instrument that intersects all the processes, becoming it possible the update of knowledge, the staff’s qualification as well as the changes required in the health practice
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