Dialogues on public health policies: an integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Vânia Maria Pessoa
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Soares, Themis Cristina Mesquita, Bezerra, Sara Taciana Firmino
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3347
• topic: Política pública; Saúde; Saúde da mulher; Educação em saúde; Políticas públicas; Salud; Salud de la mujer; . Educación para la salud; Public policy; Health; Women’s health; Health education

Public health care policies have been gaining prominence in recent decades, especially after implementation of the Unified Health System (SUS), considered a major social achievement for Brazil. This integrative literature review sought to verify the scientific evidence on the dialogue between SUS health policies and comprehensive women’s health care and health education. Bibliographic search was carried out in the Scielo and Scopus/Elsevier databases, resulting in a final sample of six articles selected for analysis. Objectives, guidelines, organization, and operation of some SUS health policies for comprehensive women’s health care and discussions regarding health education were identified. The articles pointed to the democratization of health actions and services from the SUS, which allowed to ensure women’s health care services, regardless of social class and living conditions. Health education actions, in turn, underwent minor adjustments marked by moments of transformation and implementation of health promotion and prevention services. Health education actions should be a constant interface between the National Health Policy and the National Policy for Permanent Health Education, lest they become sporadic actions at specific times or governments, entailing a gap between theory and practice.