Permanent health education as a possible practice: an experience in primary care

Abstract

Objective: to describe the process of needs analysis, execution and evaluation of an educational program in Primary Health Care, in the logic of Permanent Health Education (PHE). Method: action research with mixed approach, developed between 2014 and 2016, with health workers. Data collection occurred in focus group meetings, educational program workshops and questionnaire application. The qualitative data were submitted to discourse analysis of the collective subject, and quantitative data were submitted to descriptive statistical analysis. Results: the prioritized need was impaired communication in the work environment; and, during the implementation of the educational programme, participants agreed agreements to overcome the identified problems, such as the creation of dialogue spaces and defined communication flows. They were satisfied to participate, and it was noticed that the educational program had a positive impact on the work. Final considerations: the objective of describing the entire Process of PHE was achieved. There was a greater stimulus for a movement of transformation in the work process, in reference to the improvement of communication in the professional dimension of care management, from a dialogical and critical paradigm, capable of resignifying the teaching-learning process at work. As a product, there is a more effective way to operate PHE.