Imagens e concepções de adolescentes moradores de zonas rurais sobre saúde

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Anny Giselly Milhome da
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Vieira, Neiva Francenely Cunha, Gubert, Fabiane do Amaral, Ferreira, Adriana Gomes Nogueira, Scopacasa, Lígia Fernandes, Pinheiro, Patrícia Neyva da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/6238
• topic: Pesquisa Participativa Baseada na Comunidade; Adolescente

The objective of this study was to describe health- related images and concepts among adolescents living in rural areas of Brazil, using photography. This was a qualitative community-based partic- ipatory study that used the photovoice method for data collection with groups of teenagers. Over a four-month period, 26 participants identified health problems in the rural community, took photographs, and reflected critically on the local reality. The adolescents presented pictures and stories that they organized into research themes and categories, representing inadequate living conditions for appropriate socioeconomic and cultural development and limiting the oppor- tunities for change in this community. The study proved to be a positive health education strat- egy, involving young people in the community’s health and maximizing the voice of teenagers as protagonists in their own history.