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[The senses of health education for community health agents]
Suerde Miranda de Oliveira Brito1, Moisés Domingos Sobrinho
1Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB), Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil.
Abstract:
The study aimed at identifying the social representation of health education built by communitarian health workers. It was developed with 119 communitarian health workers in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Data were collected by the test of free association of words, questionnaires and interviews and analyzed by different methods and techniques. The results show: guidance, prevention and care as the centerpiece of representations. The peripheral: important, be prepared to guide, conduct, guidelines, professional, among others. The social representation of health education is structured in two levels: one aimed at informing the general public, another for professional training.
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