Popular Health Education Research Articles

A valorização da espiritualidade nas práticas de educação popular em saúde desenvolvidas na atenção básica

This paper aims to highlight the spirituality valuing in Popular Health Education practices developed in Primary Care. The work developed in health Primary Care regards the individual in his essence, as a being that has biological, psychological, social and spiritual needs, which must be noticed and met. The educational action, guided by popular education, favors the encounter with this subtle dimension, the so-called spirituality, as it is developed based on principles involving the strengthening of ties, the relationship through dialogue, sensitive listening, solidarity, affection, human dignity appreciation, among others. In times of pain and suffering, the spirituality appreciation can be very transformative, leading patients and their families to renew the spirit and seek new ways of coping with the challenging reality they experience. It is concludes, among other things, that this topic has been poorly discussed in health academic education. It suggests that the academies prioritize the spirituality topic in their curricula, allowing the upcoming professional to acquire greater knowledge extensiveness in order to be better prepared for the daily practice in the context of Primary Care.

Educação popular em saúde a partir de um jogo: gestão e cuidado em uma unidade de Saúde da Família

O presente relato apresenta a atividade 'bingão da saúde' como proposta diferenciada de gestão participativa e cuidado, em uma unidade de saúde, no contexto da Estratégia de Saúde da Família. A experiência é articulada com os pressupostos da política de humanização e da educação popular em saúde, com foco na democratização e na descentralização da gestão e cuidado, reconhecendo os usuários-cidadãos e os sujeitos-trabalhadores como atores de práticas coletivas no âmbito comunitário. É valorizada a cooperação e a disposição coletiva que permitem partilhar saberes e práticas de saúde. Através do jogo denominado 'bingo', são destacados temas, fala, pensamentos e interações como meio comum de expressões e significações comunitárias para os momentos da unidade de saúde. Esse processo vem permitindo o fortalecimento do vínculo profissional-usuário e a troca de saberes para a gestão em saúde em seus conselhos locais.

EDUCAÇÃO EM SAÚDE: CONCEITOS E PROPÓSITOS

Com o objetivo de promover reflexão a respeito das mudanças no conceito de educação em saúde e de seusobjetivos realizou-se um levantamento de suas práticas ao longo da história da saúde pública no Brasil.Verificou-se que aeducação em saúde tradicional, utilizada desde a República Velha não é adequada para melhorar as condições de saúde dapopulação e não está condizente com os propósitos do atual sistema de saúde. Assim, outros modelos e concepções deeducação em saúde surgiram. Sendo eles, a educação popular em saúde e a educação dialógica, tendo como base o diálogoe a melhoria das condições de vida da população.

A dimensão educativa da luta por saúde no Movimento de Mulheres Camponesas e os desafios político-pedagógicos para a educação popular em saúde

Este artigo apresenta algumas reflexões e aprendizados obtidos na investigação sobre a luta por saúde desenvolvida pelo Movimento de Mulheres Camponesas no Rio Grande do Sul, através da análise de observações, registros, documentos, histórias de vida e entrevistas feitas com mulheres que dele participam. Revela as bases que sustentam e fundamentam a emergência da luta por saúde neste Movimento e a dimensão educativa, política e terapeutica que nele se expressa. Apresenta os desafios político-pedagógicos que emergem desta experiência para a educação popular em saúde.

Aspectos culturais no cuidado familiar à criança com desnutrição

This study aimed to identify the cultural factor that interferes with the care of undernourished children and to propose actions of Popular Health Education in the assistance of undernourished children. It regards an action research developed at the Nucleus of Integrated Medical Attention – NAMI, performed between January and July 2008. Eight mothers and one father took part in the study, with ages varying from 20 to 48 years old. The data collection took place by means of semi-structured interviews and educational workshops, which were used in the Bardin content analysis. After organizing the result, the following categories were identified: unknown malnutrition; educative workshops and popular knowledge; conscience of care. The results point to a new conscience at the care of undernourished children in the community culture. interventions of Popular Health Education adjusted to culturally distinct groups are recommended. In this perspective, the proposals must be considered, making possible and stimulating Popular Education, searching for changes in the constitution of new subjects and citizens and committed to the overcoming of social, economic and political barriers.

Educação popular em saúde no cuidado à criança desnutrida

Objetivou-se identificar a percepção dos pais acerca das oficinas de educação e saúde e propor ações de educação popular em saúde na assistência à criança desnutrida. Trata-se de uma pesquisa-ação desenvolvida no Núcleo de Atenção Médica Integrada, vinculado à Universidade de Fortaleza, no estado do Ceará. Participaram oito mães e um pai, cujas idades variavam de 20 a 48 anos, no período de março a agosto de 2005. Na coleta de dados utilizou-se entrevistas semi-estruturadas e oficinas educativas. Após a organização dos resultados, identificou-se a categoria "consciência do cuidado". O método despertou nova consciência no cuidado com o filho desnutrido na cultura da comunidade. Recomendam-se intervenções de educação popular em saúde para grupos culturalmente distintos, considerando as propostas, e incentivando na formulação de opções os desafios da saúde coletiva, buscando mudanças na constituição de práticas comprometidas com o rompimento das barreiras sociais, econômicas e políticas.

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of an Interactive Educational Computer Package for Children With Asthma

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact and acceptability of an educational multimedia program designed to promote self-management skills in children with asthma. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial with measures at baseline and 1- and 6-month follow-up. The trial was conducted in pediatric outpatient respiratory clinics in 3 United Kingdom hospitals. Participants included 101 children aged 7 to 14 years under the care of hospital-based asthma services. The children were randomly assigned to receive an asthma information booklet alone or the booklet plus The Asthma Files, an interactive CD-ROM for children with asthma. Asthma knowledge was the primary outcome measure. Other measures included asthma locus of control, lung function, use of oral steroids, and school absence. At the 1-month follow-up (n = 99), children in the computer group had improved knowledge compared with the control group and a more internal locus of control. There were no differences in objective lung-function measures, hospitalizations, or oral steroid use. The study participants were positive in their evaluation of the intervention. At the 6-month follow-up (n = 90), significantly fewer children in the intervention group had required oral steroids and had had time off school for asthma in the previous 6 months. The difference did not reach statistical significance in the intention-to-treat analysis for both steroid use and school absence. The Asthma Files was found to be an effective and popular health education tool for promoting asthma self-management skills within pediatric care.

Popular Health Education and Propaganda in Times of Peace and War in Mexico City, 1890s–1920s

Health education and propaganda acquired importance during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Mexico City, as physicians, hygienists, and schoolteachers attempted to teach the principles of public health to a culturally and socially heterogeneous urban population.I explore the organization of the Popular Hygiene Exhibition of 1910 and the importance of health education before and after the armed phase of the Mexican Revolution, and why children and the indigenous populations became the main recipients of health education programs.

Conhecimentos populares e educação em saúde na formação do enfermeiro

Na perspectiva da incorporação da reforma sanitária nos projetos pedagógicos dos cursos de enfermagem, conforme as diretrizes curriculares, contextualiza a formação do enfermeiro para a educação em saúde, a importância da aproximação das práticas de cuidados e traz resultados de pesquisa com enfermeiras de sete municípios de comunidades rurais do Rio Grande do Sul. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa com coleta de dados através de observação participante, entrevista e análise documental, sendo os mesmos analisados em seu conteúdo. Estes dados constituem atividades observadas no trabalho das enfermeiras, na educação em saúde. Conclui que o trabalho das enfermeiras era impregnado de ações educativas, na modalidade coletiva e individual. Por outro lado, referem falta de preparo, na graduação, para melhor desempenhar esta função.

Improving Readability of Patient Education Materials

Functional illiteracy contributes to negative long-term health consequences for patients who must understand and adhere to complex health care instructions and, therefore, is of primary importance to community health nurses. This problem is compounded when English is the patient's second language. A process for improving patient education materials (PEMs) through adaptation or creation of new materials to meet the health needs of diverse groups is presented.1 The process was applied to a popular health education program used with school-age children and their parents to teach them home management of asthma. Target parents were known to read at a 5th-grade level, and English was a second language for many of them. Therefore, extensive revision of the existing PEMs was required. The steps to successful revision included assessing readability and comprehensibility, editing the materials, and evaluating the new PEMs to determine the effectiveness of the revision measures.

A life shackled by disease

A young healthy person sees life as a long, promising road that he walks in search of his place in family, work, and society. He knows that there are serious and life-threatening illnesses that are difficult or even impossible to live with. From popular science or health education books and articles he has learned a rudimentary knowledge of the presence and prevalence of serious diseases that plague the civilized world. However, the fullness of life, the daily troubles and joys have their effect in the sense that one, except for personal professional interests, does not think more deeply about the world of the sick. One can only wish that one's journey through life will not be overshadowed by illness and that life, uncomplicated by illness, will pass according to expectation, ending many years later in physiological old age.

A Comparative Study of Three Model Comprehensive Elementary School Health Education Programs

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the three most popular comprehensive health education programs in Michigan including each program's curricular content, student outcomes, and cost effectiveness. The three programs were cross-referenced with the Michigan Essential Performance Objectives for Health (MEPO). Student outcome data were gathered and analyzed utilizing a health education instrument derived from the Michigan Educational Assessment Program. Instruments were administered to 377 third-graders and 595 sixth-graders participating in the three health programs. While each of the three programs met the Michigan Essential Performance Objectives for Health, the programs differed in areas of teacher training time, materials cost, and length of time for implementation. Third graders showed some very positive effects from health instruction based upon a comparison of their composite scores and scores for 10 health topic areas. Sixth graders showed some gains in several health topic areas, but few significant gains in composite scores.

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Die Brücke: Klinische Bilder in sechs Sprachen. Ein Hilfsbuch für Ärzte bei der Behandlung fremdsprachiger Patienten

Here is an extraordinary contribution to popular health education in medicine and in languages. In parallel columns the author presents in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese the conversations which a doctor might have with his patient on a great number of common diseases. Physicians in each of the nations concerned have collaborated with him in the preparation of his text. He says "I hope with my collaborators that this book will become a real bridge for all the doctors of the six countries. It is designed to give a helping hand to the patient and the doctor in the consulting room, in hospitals in the foreign countries, on expeditions, on board ship, and last but not least in military hospitals." The conversations are ingeniously conceived but there seems to be a considerable wastage of space in making the conversations resemble the realistic which perhaps might better have been

Diphtheria Prevention on a State-wide Basis and the Part the Public Health Nurse Has Taken

V v has been developed; and would such a statement help the further development of the project to any great extent? We have chosen to outline certain experiences in developing toxin-antitoxin campaigns in New York State, because that is the territory with which we are most familiar. The diphtheria prevention program on a state-wide basis became a joint major activity of 5 state-wide official and nonofficial organizations in January, 1926, and has remained so for 5 years. The New York State Department of Health provided official direction and organization service and advice through its field workers, and supplied toxin-antitoxin mixture free to local health departments and to private physicians. The State Department of Education secured the interest of local boards of education, of school medical inspectors, of school nurses and school teachers, and issued a statement to all parents and all school authorities asking their help to eradicate diphtheria. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company through its Welfare Division gave financial support, supplied a huge amount of excellent free literature, moving picture films, statistical service, and special speakers both for radio broadcasts and for local groups. The company solicited the active participation of its field agents, local district managers, medical examiners and visiting nurses. The State Committee on Tuberculosis and Public Health of the State Charities Aid Association put its long years of experience in health promotion through local organization to work. Practically every medium of popular health education was utilized to secure public support and to bring the various official and voluntary agencies together for a concentrated attack on diphtheria.

The Place of Popular Health Education in a Public Health Programme, by I. FELDMAN, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P

The Place of Popular Health Education in a Public Health Programme, by I. FELDMAN, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P

POPULARIZING VITAL STATISTICS

Fitting dry-as-dust vital statistics to the psychology of the people is one of the most important problems in modern popular health education. For the benefit of brother health officers Dr. Drake gives a few leaves out of his own experience in impressing fundamental statistical truths on a public that demands interesting presentation together with pictures and variety and novelty.