Long-distance learning as a resource for capacity of Community Health Agents on preventive interventions related to alcohol and other drugs

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Maíra Gussi de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: de Sousa, Cibele Maria, Merçon de Vargas, Cláudia Regina, Oliveira, Donizete Moreira de, Lima, Maria da Glória, Gussi, Maria Aparecida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1593
• topic: Community health workers; Education; distance; Mentoring; Mental health; Family health; Substance-related disorders.; Agentes comunitarios de salud; Educación a distancia; Tutoría; Salud mental; Salud de la familia; Trastornos relacionados con sustancias.; Agentes comunitários de saúde; Educação a distância; Tutoria; Saúde mental; Saúde da família; Transtornos relacionados ao uso de substâncias

ABSTRACTThe Community Health Workers are one of the strategic agents in the work of Primary Care, because they live more directly with health issues in the territory, considering that the problems related to the use of alcohol and other drugs require investment focused on the qualification of health professional.  Therefore, this article aimed to report the experience of the Capacity Course of Community Health Agents towards preventive actions from alcohol and other drugs, conducted in the modality of self-instructional distance learning, with tutorial accompaniment. The use of technological tools, besides the articulation with the service network and tutorial accompaniment, proved to be a powerful resource for the development of permanent education in service, in which tutoring was a differential in the enrollment and interest of these professionals in the course, in a way that allows the acquisition of concepts and health strategies to better answer the users needs, according to the prerogatives of the Unified Health System and the psychosocial care model.