Educação popular em saúde no cuidado da desnutrição infantil

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The study approaches the relevance of the popular education on health for the families, as strategies in the care of the infantile malnutrition. It was objectified to identify the cultural factors that intervene with the care of the unfed son; to investigate the knowledge of the parents about the malnutrition of the son; and to consider action of popular education on health in the assistance to the child. The study research action was characterized as involving the etnografia in a qualitative boarding, where the participant comment consisted of the technique that was used in all the research. It was developed in the Nucleus of Medical Attention Integrated - NAMI, connected with the University of Fortaleza - UNIFOR, located in Fortaleza-Ceará-Brazil. The informers of the study were nine families, they were the parents, whose ages varied from 20 to 48 years old. The collection of datas was fulfilled by the survey in handbooks, domiciliary visits, half-structuralized consultation of systemize nursing, interviews, educative workshops. For the processing of the datas it was used thematic analysis of Bardin for being a method in which if it works with the subjectivity and the qualitative diversification. After organization of the results identified the extracted categories in the interviews, that had been: knowledge on the malnutrition of the son; Food as well-taken care of the unfed son; guilt in the perception of the care of the unfed son; conscience of the care. It was perceived that, inside of the culture of the community, the informers disclose the wakening of a new conscience in the care stopping with the unfed son, retaking principles basic which had shown important. Interventions of popular education on health adjusted for culturally distinct groups send regards. In this perspective, it has to receive and to consider the set of proposals, being made possible and stimulating the popular education Health in the construction of alternatives to the great challenges that the collective health comes facing, searching changes and renewing the field, in the constitution of new practical new citizens and compromised with the disruption of the social, economic and political barriers.

ASSUNTO(S)

saude coletiva crianÇas - cuidado e higiene - dissertaÇÕes crianÇas - desnutriÇÃo - dissertaÇÕes educaÇÃo em saÚde - dissertaÇÕes

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