Popular Health Education Research Articles

A EDUCAÇÃO POPULAR EM SAÚDE NA ARTICULAÇÃO COM A PROMOÇÃO DA SAÚDE: Revisão integrativa

The present study refers to an integrative review research on the actions and results that the Popular Health Education strategy has offered to populations in integration with proposals from the field of Health Promotion in Brazil. There was an online search in three databases: SUMÁRIOS.ORG, DOAJ, SCIELO. Listed descriptors: popular health education and health promotion. 22 studies were selected. The research presented three thematic categories for analysis: 'Active methodologies of the teaching and learning process in the construction of popular education actions in health'; 'Popular health education actions in conjunction with the National Health Promotion Policy (PNPS)'; ‘The strategy of popular health education in line with the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals’, generating the planning of proposals involving populations and communities, health professionals, the school context, and connections with the priority themes of the health promotion project and the PNPS. From the results it is concluded that the strategy of popular health education is an important action tool, as it promotes the empowerment of individuals and society, in addition to favoring the development of personal and collective skills. However, there are still challenges to be faced regarding the creation and expansion of innovative and educational practices in health.

What has been discussed about Popular Health Education in recent years: a narrative review of the literature.

This narrative review aims to analyze the literature on Collective Health to recognize what has been discussed in Popular Health Education (PHE) from 2019 to 2022. Fifty-nine articles were selected, critically analyzed, and separated into six summary categories: popular education practices as promoters of a participatory vision of health; popular education and the valorization of local popular culture knowledge and practices; popular health education as a strategy to support social reconstruction in the face of setbacks in public policies; the importance of national articulation in popular education as a response to its devaluation; popular education as a liberating project thinking about the democratic formation and the fight against institutional and structural violence; popular education in the university health training process. We achieved significant results that elucidate the importance of PHE within the Unified Health System and the academic education of health professionals, fostering respect for ancestral knowledge and care horizontality. We also reaffirm the need for national articulation and dialogue with grassroots movements to advance Brazil's emancipatory and dignifying health agenda.

O que se tem discutido sobre Educação Popular em Saúde nos últimos anos: uma revisão narrativa da literatura

Abstract This narrative review aims to analyze the literature on Collective Health to recognize what has been discussed in Popular Health Education (PHE) from 2019 to 2022. Fifty-nine articles were selected, critically analyzed, and separated into six summary categories: popular education practices as promoters of a participatory vision of health; popular education and the valorization of local popular culture knowledge and practices; popular health education as a strategy to support social reconstruction in the face of setbacks in public policies; the importance of national articulation in popular education as a response to its devaluation; popular education as a liberating project thinking about the democratic formation and the fight against institutional and structural violence; popular education in the university health training process. We achieved significant results that elucidate the importance of PHE within the Unified Health System and the academic education of health professionals, fostering respect for ancestral knowledge and care horizontality. We also reaffirm the need for national articulation and dialogue with grassroots movements to advance Brazil’s emancipatory and dignifying health agenda.

Educação popular no SUS: desafios atuais no olhar do Observatório de Educação Popular em Saúde e Realidade Brasileira

Abstract This paper aims to bring reflections and notes for strengthening Brazilian structuring public policies, focusing on Popular Health Education in the Unified Health System (SUS) from the perspectives built in the Observatory of Popular Health Education and the Brazilian Reality. The Observatory is a valuable space for sharing health professionals’ and popular educators’ interpretations and experiences about local and Brazilian realities from the perspective of Popular Health Education. During its two years of activity, the Observatory has gathered summary interpretations of Popular Health Education for the crises that traverse the country’s recent history in a dialogical and participatory way. In a panoramic view, the shared statements point to challenges for valuing the human approach to health promotion, including respecting local and community knowledge and social practices. Moreover, we underscore the importance of social participation in constructing participatory social processes in public health toward citizen autonomy and expanded democratic dynamics in the Brazilian State and its social equipment.

A contribuição do pensamento de Paulo Freire para a Vigilância Popular em Saúde

Abstract Paulo Freire considered Popular Education (PE) as an emancipatory process, through debate and critical action, as a dimension of human existence. This text aims to conduct a narrative literature review on the articulations of Paulo Freire’s ideas with Popular Health Surveillance (PHS) actions based on his contributions to Education and Health. The text presents how the contributions of Paulo Freire and Popular Health Education inspired the construction of Popular Health Surveillance, which seeks to promote the transformation of local reality in the face of rights violations and advocate for life. Thus, experiences from vulnerable territories and populations often use Popular Education pedagogical strategies to establish PHS practices. Popular Health Education becomes crucial in the territory to stimulate the transformation of individual perception and discuss their reality. Promoting a praxis about the “critical situation” in the daily lives of social stakeholders allows diagnosing reality based on scientific information in dialogue with culture and popular organization as a possibility of building the “viable unprecedented”.

The contribution of Paulo Freire's thought to Popular Health Surveillance.

Paulo Freire considered Popular Education (PE) as an emancipatory process, through debate and critical action, as a dimension of human existence. This text aims to conduct a narrative literature review on the articulations of Paulo Freire's ideas with Popular Health Surveillance (PHS) actions based on his contributions to Education and Health. The text presents how the contributions of Paulo Freire and Popular Health Education inspired the construction of Popular Health Surveillance, which seeks to promote the transformation of local reality in the face of rights violations and advocate for life. Thus, experiences from vulnerable territories and populations often use Popular Education pedagogical strategies to establish PHS practices. Popular Health Education becomes crucial in the territory to stimulate the transformation of individual perception and discuss their reality. Promoting a praxis about the "critical situation" in the daily lives of social stakeholders allows diagnosing reality based on scientific information in dialogue with culture and popular organization as a possibility of building the "viable unprecedented".

Popular education in the SUS: current challenges from the perspective of the Observatory of Popular Health Education and the Brazilian Reality.

This paper aims to bring reflections and notes for strengthening Brazilian structuring public policies, focusing on Popular Health Education in the Unified Health System (SUS) from the perspectives built in the Observatory of Popular Health Education and the Brazilian Reality. The Observatory is a valuable space for sharing health professionals' and popular educators' interpretations and experiences about local and Brazilian realities from the perspective of Popular Health Education. During its two years of activity, the Observatory has gathered summary interpretations of Popular Health Education for the crises that traverse the country's recent history in a dialogical and participatory way. In a panoramic view, the shared statements point to challenges for valuing the human approach to health promotion, including respecting local and community knowledge and social practices. Moreover, we underscore the importance of social participation in constructing participatory social processes in public health toward citizen autonomy and expanded democratic dynamics in the Brazilian State and its social equipment.

EDUCAÇÃO POPULAR EM SAÚDE: SIGNIFICADO DA EXPERIÊNCIA NA FORMAÇÃO DE AGENTES COMUNITÁRIOS DE SAÚDE

ABSTRACT: This study brings results from a qualitative research aiming to analyze the meaning of the training experience of Community Health Workers (ACSs, in Portuguese) in the Qualification Program in Popular Education in Health (EdPopSUS), one of the priority strategies of the Operative Plan of the National Policy of Popular Education for the Unified Health System, in Brazil. Data production occurred between 2018-2019 and included documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews with the ACSs and the health and EdPopSUS managers. The textual material produced was interpreted by content analysis, in light of the Popular Education theoretical framework. The results showed that EdPopSUS encouraged the ACSs' reflection, dialogue, and affection, enhancing their creativity and autonomy in an educational space of self-knowledge and interaction with their experienced world. ACSs' personal and professional experiences were valued, improving their communication with the team, the community, and the families, their listening skills, and their ability to conduct collective educational activities. The field trips and the conversation rounds were highlighted as potentialities of this training. Challenges were identified in implementing the principles of Popular Education in Primary Health Care. The experience analyzed strengthened ACSs' role as agents of change and popular educators. In this sense, Popular Education in Health was reinforced as a pedagogical-social practice, strengthening people, movements, teams, care practices, and the health system. The educational processes based on Popular Education are recommended for the permanent education of health teams.

Popular education in health: principles, challenges and perspectives in the critical reconstruction of the country

Popular education in health: principles, challenges and perspectives in the critical reconstruction of the country

The ground(-universe) of Popular Health Education: knowledge and practices that break with what has been established

Resumo O estudo pretende avaliar a influência das práticas e saberes de educadores populares sobre ações hegemônicas de educação em saúde. Estudo de caso no qual foram feitas entrevistas semiestruturadas com 23 educadores em meio à seleção do Curso de Aperfeiçoamento em Educação Popular em Saúde. Realizou-se análise de conteúdo dos dados, com auxílio do Iramuteq para sua interpretação. A Educação Popular em Saúde apresentou-se como campo articulador de práticas e saberes acumulados em educação, saúde, arte e movimentos sociais, rompendo com fragmentação de saberes, mercantilização do conhecimento e das profissões, além da hierarquia entre saber acadêmico e popular. Ao refletirem sobre ser educador popular, os sujeitos trouxeram suas singularidades como essenciais e o rompimento com a ideia hegemônica de educador. A articulação entre elementos diversos aponta para um universo, por vezes, composto de contradições entre eles. A educação popular em saúde revelou-se espaço que possibilita rupturas com as perspectivas hegemônicas de educação em saúde, ao apresentar-se como diálogo entre práticas, saberes e valores diversos e singulares, que, aberto ao contraditório, se propõe a ser uma construção coletiva.

Decolonizing Popular Health Education: until the inclusion of indigenous visions for the promotion of culturally healthy and secured territories

Mesmo com as intenções de desenvolver territórios saudáveis, a integração em comunidade não garante a atitude descolonial. Como viver juntos em territórios culturalmente seguros, indígenas e não indígenas, com uma relação horizontal de cooperação? Como desenvolver práticas descolonizadoras de educação social e popular em saúde? Um ensaio crítico-reflexivo vivencial se apresenta aos leitores como um exercício de introspeção com horizonte autobiográfico do sujeito escrevendo. Influenciada por experiências brasileiras, a autora revisita seus territórios no Canadá com um olhar de descobrimento. O objetivo é sistematizar e problematizar experiências populares em sua relação com o território para visualizar formas de criar territórios saudáveis. A performance, como epistemologia corporal e cenestésica (movimento), é o método pelo qual uma pessoa pode seguir adiante para se entender melhor as dinâmicas sociais historicamente opressoras e recapturar a importância dessas dimensões nos ensinamentos.

Popular health agents in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: the role of popular health education in building healthy and sustainable territories

Este estudo analisou as experiências desenvolvidas pelos Agentes Populares de Saúde (AgPS) na Campanha Mãos Solidárias, entre os anos 2020 e 2022, suas aproximações com a Política Nacional de Educação Popular em Saúde e com o conceito de Territórios Saudáveis e Sustentáveis. Trata-se de uma pesquisa documental, qualitativa e analítica, cujas fontes de dados foram coletadas nas mídias sociais da campanha, jornais e produções acadêmicas do tema. Os AgPS fomentaram o protagonismo popular nos territórios por meio de estratégias de mobilização pelo direito a saúde, educação em saúde, comunicação popular e cuidado em saúde. Identificaram e fortaleceram os saberes populares do território pela articulação intersetorial entre Saúde, Alimentação, Trabalho e Renda, Direitos, Comunicação e Educação. Este trabalho identificou a dificuldade de articulação das ações com o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) e também a necessidade de fortalecimento de políticas públicas relacionadas ao tema.

Lingerie, high heels, lipstick, alcohol and tobacco: paraphilias and fetishes and the Mental Health of Sex Workers

Law No. 10,216 (National Mental Health Policy) reports on the rights and protection of people suffering from mental disorders. Objective: to report the perceptions of female sex workers about their mental health in light of the Mandala of Knowledge. Results: 1st moment: Who are we – participants make their self-introduction. 2nd moment: Getting to know the Mandala - explanation of what Popular Health Education is. 3rd moment: Our daily mental health - presentation of images with the main CMDs. 4th moment: How can I help myself? – the sex workers brought their stories about each image present in the mandala. Through constructions and deconstructions of EPS, strong and real stories from sex workers about CMD were highlighted. Conclusion: we noticed the precariousness between quality of life and the job carried out by sex workers, their long working hours, risk of harassment and police violence, precarious financial situation, thus reflecting on their mental health, whether at home or in the work environment.

Celestina, SUS and Sertão: a therapy clown experiment in popular education in health

The scope of this paper is to elicit reflection on therapy clowns in the realm of Popular Education in Health. It describes and analyzes interventions conducted between October 2020 and December 2021 between civil service workers and patients in the Sertão Central hinterlands. Therapy clowning paved the way as a potent technology for humanized care treatment by the resident nurse. As an intermediary between scientific and popular knowledge, in its scenopoetic approach, it dealt creatively and humorously with taboo subjects for community health, promoting a light-hearted interaction experience with its audience. The experience revealed some points about the scarcity of investment to make projects like this viable, thereby empowering the institutionalization of Popular Education in Health. For this reason, we advocate the implementation of training sessions and workshops on concepts, challenges, and potentialities in Popular Education in Health. Therapy clowning, as a proposed action, is a transformative technology that inspires a proactive approach in the community through knowledge, loving care, and art.

Characteristic of viral hepatitis deaths in Brazil in the year 2021

Introduction: Viral hepatitis is an inflammatory disease of the liver caused by specific viruses. These viruses can be classified into five main types: A, B, C, D and E. Therefore, the objective was to describe the main characteristics of deaths from viral hepatitis in Brazil in the year 2021. Methods: This is an observational, cross-sectional and descriptive study, with a quantitative approach and using secondary data, through DATASUS, from the SIM. Results: The data provided present information on the characteristics of deaths from viral hepatitis in Brazil, including age range, sex, color/race, education and marital status of people who died due to this disease, number of deaths from viral hepatitis in each region of Brazil and number of deaths from viral hepatitis in Brazil, grouped by type of hepatitis. Discussion: In the year 2021 were notified to the Mortality Information System of Brazil 1,712 deaths by viral hepatitis. As for the characteristics of these deaths, the variables with the highest incidence can be defined as: age 60 to 79 years (823 deaths), male gender (1,078 deaths), white race (865 deaths), education from 8 to 11 years (450 deaths), married (580), southern region and chronic viral hepatitis. Conclusion: Given the relevance to this issue, early diagnosis, treatment and popular education in health is of fundamental importance, aiming at strategies to reduce morbidity, mortality and survival of its carriers.

Using popular education in health during the COVID-19 pandemic with women who suffered violence: an experience report

Using popular education in health during the COVID-19 pandemic with women who suffered violence: an experience report

Contributions from popular education in health to structural competency training: An experience from Chile

ABSTRACT Structural competency is used to train health professionals on how social, political, and economic dynamics create conditions that negatively impact a population’s health. In the Global South, this approach has historical roots in social movements, popular education, social medicine, and human rights. In 1982, during a time of extreme poverty, inequality, and violence under the Chilean military dictatorship, Educación Popular en Salud (EPES), developed a programme for training community health promoters to address common illnesses and analyse the underlying causes of poor health. In 2010, EPES began using the same model to train international and Chilean health professionals. The approach advanced four competencies. Evaluations show that training contributes to transforming health professionals’ mindsets and leads them to question their practices. However, educating practitioners does not change the underlying structures that generate poor health. This article examines the intersection between EPES’ competencies and the structural competency framework, highlighting two major contributions of EPES to structural competency: a methodology that narrows the gap between a theoretical analysis of social determinants of health and implementing action plans; and organic long-term links with social movements that strengthen collective action in poor neighbourhoods to advance social justice.

Intestinal parasitic infections: telephone health literacy with men in areas of poverty in the syndemic.

to assess Popular Health Education practices on intestinal parasites, carried out by telephone contact with men living in urban communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the COVID-19 syndemic. a quasi-experimental, quantitative and descriptive study, carried out with men aged 20 to 59 years. Pre-test was applied, and participants were divided into two groups: control and experimental. Popular Education in Health practices were carried out with an experimental group, and post-test was applied for both. health education practices were significant in the experimental group, with a reduction in incorrect answers. There was an increase in incorrect answers in the control group's post-test. the Brazilian National Policy for Popular Education in Health contributed to qualify men's health literacy on intestinal parasites. Practice by telephone contact proved to be a powerful strategy for nursing and public policies to access this group and promote health in Primary Health Care.

Public participation and popular health education: potential spaces for dialogue in the form of a collective ombudsman

Este trabalho relata a experiência de um projeto de pesquisa e extensão no âmbito da participação social e da educação popular em saúde, realizado na comunidade de Roda de Fogo, Recife, PE, entre 2019 e 2021. Tem como objetivo descrever como se deu essa experiência, apontar seus resultados e identificar suas potencialidades e desafios. Para a sistematização dos dados, utilizamos gravações, cadernos de campo e atas de reunião do projeto. Ao revisitar todo o material, foi possível ratificar o importante trabalho realizado pela ouvidoria coletiva no âmbito da formação dos estudantes, da participação dos moradores e da interlocução com diversos setores da máquina pública, que, juntos, visaram uma maior compreensão dos inúmeros desafios enfrentados pelos territórios mais empobrecidos. Entretanto, verificamos que as discussões no âmbito do projeto tenderam a se encaminhar para necessidades imediatas, o que comprometeu o sentido político da participação social.

The challenges of popular health education and health promotion for adolescents in the post-pandemic context

The challenges of popular health education and health promotion for adolescents in the post-pandemic context