A educação em saúde com grupos de usuários dos serviços de saúde amparada pela integralidade: revisão sistematizada

Abstract

The education in health is a set of practices exercised by the health professional using as the basis all scientific knowledge acquired over his career, in order to contribute to a defined population, with the focus to the subject as a whole, taking into account their popular knowledge, cultural and social environment that is inserted. The integrality is defined by a set of actions directed for the collectivities which are inserted on assisting of health. The present study aimed to analyze the Brazilian qualitative studies on education in health as a strategy for integral attention to users of health services, based on the identification of education in health concepts, used by the authors and the chronology between them. Proceeded to descriptive qualitative content analysis of the thematic modality using as a data source the database LILACS and SCIELO library. The descriptors used were Education in Health and Qualitative Research. To the studies selected after inclusion and exclusion criteria a representative guest card of the study's objectives was applied later organized in a frame. Were selected nine studies for analysis of introduction, methodology and closing remarks. Regarding the year of publication ranged from 2007 to 2014, and were mostly descriptive with semi structured interviews. Based on the findings was held the construction of the following analytical categories: 1) Transmission of information versus the exchange of experiences: the traditional concept of their overcoming; 2) user ́s needs: considerations on the integrality; 3) Education in Health Practice: what they want to achieve?; The present study enabled a better understanding of how the education in health has being placed into practice and what is its importance for the contribution to comprehensive health care.