Permanent health education: an integrative review of literature

• Autor(a) principal: Pralon, Johnatan Antoniolli
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Garcia, Daniella Caldas, Iglesias, Alexandra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v10i14.22015
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/22015
• topic: Formação Profissional em Saúde; Educação na saúde; Sistema Único de Saúde; Revisão.; Formación profesional en salud; Educación para la salud; Sistema Único de Salud; Revisión.; Professional training in health; Health education; Health Unic System; Review.

Permanent Health Education (PHE) asserts itself as an important strategy for changing practices and realities in health work. It is based mainly on the development of democratic spaces and on the collective construction of knowledge supported by the work and/or health needs of users. This study aimed to understand how the theme of Continuing Education in Health has been addressed in the scientific literature, in order to know the understandings, potentials and impasses related to PHE. For that, we used the Integrative Review, which allowed a concise systematization of knowledge and data obtained from empirical and non-empirical studies on the subject in question. A consonance was observed between the understandings present in the scientific literature and those conveyed by official documents, however there is a certain difficulty in distinguishing the concepts of PHE and Continuing Education (CE). Regarding the impasses resulting from PHE, difficulties of an institutional nature were found, related to the work processes and training in health in Brazil. PHE also stood out as a tool to enable changes in the organization of work, in care models and health concepts, allowing the worker to develop autonomy and increase technical and relational skills.