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- Title
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM IN THE VIEW OF COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENTS.
- Authors
Camponogara, Silviamar; Erthal, Graciele; Mello Viero, Cibelle
- Abstract
This study aimed to know what community health agents think about the environment problematic. This was a qualitative approach research, of the exploratory-descriptive kind, which was carried out with community health agents that take part of teams of the family health strategy, of a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. The data were collected in October, 2010, through a semistructured interview and they were analyzed based on the reference suggested for content analysis. The subjects noticed a convergence between the natural and the social dimension when they think about the environment. Demonstrated belief in the intimate relation between health and environment and also that having responsible about the environment issue, especially through the promotion of health. It was concluded that a need by addressing for environmental education in order to strengthen the community health agents' competencies for the promotion of health, based on presuppositions that value the interface between health and environment, helping the individuals and the community to face the socio- environmental situations and in the prevention of the problems that come from the human exposure to environment problems.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ATTITUDE (Psychology); COMMITMENT (Psychology); COMMUNITY health workers; CONTENT analysis; ENVIRONMENTAL health; FAMILY health; FAMILY services; HEALTH promotion; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL personnel; PERSONNEL management; RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE research; OCCUPATIONAL roles; HEALTH literacy
- Publication
Ciencia, Cuidado e Saude, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 2, p233
- ISSN
1677-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v12i2.18584