Educação em saúde com gestantes sobre Sistema Único de Saúde no município de Santo Antônio de Jesus - BA

Abstract

Health education is the educational process of building knowledge in health, which aims at the thematic appropriation by the population, defined by a set of practices of the sector that contributes to increasing the autonomy of subjects in their self-care and in the debate with professionals and managers, in order to achieve health care, according to their needs. The objective was to promote mobilization initiatives and political discussions between pregnant women, based on a critical participatory methodology on the Unified Health System, its guidelines, its functioning and the organization of services. It is based on a study of interventionist practice, exploratory and descriptive, of the before and after type, based on in critical and participatory methodology. The conversation wheel strategy was used with the pregnant women, whose theme involved the dialogued presentation of the guidelines, the operation and the organization of public health services. The study was carried out in two units of Family Health in the municipality of Santo Antônio de Jesus-Ba, with 80 pregnant women. You results describe the brief and reproductive sociodemographic characterization of pregnant women, in addition to the number of correct answers before and after the educational intervention, regarding the questions of pre and post test. The findings showed the importance and need for actions of this nature developed at the USF, to trigger knowledge, raise awareness of its role, as social subjects, and the exercise of autonomy so guided by the health system current. The developed activity allowed reflecting on a relevant theme, from which the pregnant women know little, even though they are included as users of the USF. In counterpoint, announced, numerically, learning through a simple educational approach, leading to the conclusion that, even with the difficulties related to the social limitations of these pregnant women, investing in health education is an effective strategy in the promotion and prevention of health, in addition to symbolizing a practice of raising awareness among users, professionals and managers, regarding the relevance of producing collective care, planned by all, above all, by popular participation, here in this study, by pregnant women who demonstrate differences in behavior towards their body and health.