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[Health education based on culture circles]
Estela Maria Leite Meirelles Monteiro1, Neiva Francenely Cunha Vieira
1Grupo de Pesquisa em Epistemologia e Fundamentos do Cuidar, Faculdade de Enfermagem Nossa Senhora das Graças, Universidade Federal de Pernanbuco, Recife, PE. estelaf2003@yahoo.com.br
Abstract:
This study aims at systematizing with the participants of Culture Circles a proposal of reconstruction of actions of health education that show the necessary competences to the nurses of Family Health Program for a practice in education on critical and reflexive health. It is constituted of a research action, where the researcher based in "Paulo Freire Method" is encouraging debates in eight Culture Circles having the participation of ten nurses. The Circles give them the training of a political conscience , essential to the process of " empowerment " of the health professional in practicing his socio-politics competence. The proposal of achieving the Culture Circles establish a link of complicity between health professionals and communitarian groups with the actions of health promotion.
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