The teaching of chemical safety in Ceará: a focus on higher health courses

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Marco Antonio Ferreira da
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Branco, Carlos Couto Castelo, Borba, Cintia Moraes, Pereira, Maria Eveline Castro, Mello, Liana Perdigão, Costa, Maria de Fátima Barrozo da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ensino de Ciências e Matemática - REnCiMa
• Texto Completo: https://revistapos.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/rencima/article/view/1854
• topic: Ensino de Ciências; Educação Profissional; Biossegurança; Science Teaching; Professional Education; Biosafety

The article is derived from the results of projects funded by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development), involving professionals from the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV) / Oswaldo Cruz Institut (IOC), Sérgio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP), all located at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation / FIOCRUZ) / RJ, in partnership with the Faculty of Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing (FFOE), of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), and Central Laboratory of Public Health of the Ceará (LACEN/CE). The objective of this study was to investigate the current situation of chemical safety teaching in higher education courses in the state of Ceará. It was a research carried out in two moments; the first one was a descriptive study, with qualitative approach and that had as subjects, professionals, teachers and students of courses in the health area. As instruments of data collection, questionnaires were used; the second consisted of a webgraphic research in sites of courses of the health area of ​​institutions of Ceará. The results obtained point to a worrying absence of chemical safety in the curricula of the courses studied, which makes this research an important tool to leverage this area, not only in the Northeast region, but also in the other regions of Brazil.