Potentialities and fragilities of distance learning in the context of primary care: qualitative exploratory study

• Autor(a) principal: Russo, Natália Conteçote
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Nunes, Karina Rubia, Vieira, Carla Maria, Komuro, Jéssica Emy, Oliveira, Maria Rita Marques de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/san/article/view/8653634
• topic: Educação a distância; Atenção primária a saúde; Segurança alimentar e nutricional.; Distance learning; Primary health care; Food policy.

The distance education as a strategy to increase food and nutrition actions in primary health care in the Unified Health System/Brazil (SUS) is the central theme of this article, with the objective of evaluating the process of distance education for the promotion of food and nutritional security in the context of primary care. The data were generated from the interaction between the students and tutors, in on-line environment and categorized from the content analysis framework. The discussion of the results was supported by the theoretical frameworkof Public Health and Nutrition Education. The categories of analysis are “The educational process and the student in a virtual environment”, “The role of the tutor in the EAD modality” and “Theintersectoral actions and territorializing”. It was concluded that distance education is a technology that promotes change, when used to approximate theory and practice, to re-signify work and to empowe r the learner for transformative actions in primary care.