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- Title
THE HEALTH SCHOOL PROGRAMME: A HEALTH PROMOTION STRATEGY IN PRIMARY CARE IN BRAZIL.
- Authors
Antero Sousa Machado, Maria de Fátima; do Amaral Gubert, Fabiane; Anya Pimentel Gomes Fernandes Vieira Meyer; Coêlho Correia Sampaio, Yana Paula; de Araújo Dias, Maria Socorro; Brito de Almeida, Ana Mattos; Pereira Morais, Ana Patrícia; Cavalcante e. Silva, Anamaria; Sales Campos, Jocileide; Osawa Chagas, Maristela Inês; Soares Chaves, Emília
- Abstract
Introduction: the Health School Programme (HSP) should be understood as a permanent development process. In this context, the actions of a policy aimed at children and adolescentsare paramount in the HSP. Objective: to identify and describe the actions developed by the Family Health Group in the HSP, from the National Programme for ImprovingAccess and Quality of Primary Care (PIPCAQ). Methods: this cross-sectional research used secondary data collected fromthe 17,202 groups who joined PIPCAQ in 2012. Results: all regions showed significant results concerning the execution of school activities. the Northern region was the one that performed most school actions (80.5%), followed by the Northeast, Midwest, South and Southeast, respectively. However, some items, such as professional training in education and health work need to be streng the ned. Conclusion: HSP in Brazil has mobilised significant actions, even though it has not happened in homogeneously in all Brazilian regions.
- Subjects
PRIMARY care; STUDENT health
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Crescimento e Desenvolvimento Humano, 2015, Vol 25, Issue 3, p307
- ISSN
0104-1282
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7322/jhgd.96709