Continuing education for community health agents: potentialities of an education guided by the framework of Health and Popular Education/Educacao permanente com agentes comunitarios de saude: potencialidades de uma formacao norteada pelo referencial da Educacao Popular e Saude/Educación permanente con agentes comunitarios de salud: potencialidades de una formación regida por el factor de referencia de la Educación Popular y Salud

• Published in: Interface (Botucatu, Brazil) Brazil), 2014-10, Vol.18 (51), p.1199
• Main Authors: de Queiroz, Danielly Maia, da Silva, Maria Rocineide Ferreira, de Oliveira, Lucia Conde
• Format: Article
• Language: por ; spa
• ISSN: 1414-3283
• DOI: 10.1590/1807-57622013.0303

In Family Health, the community health agent (CHA) is the spokesperson for the care model; however, as he receives incipient education, continuing education must bridge gaps in his work. This study aimed to indicate the steps of the learning process experienced with CHA in the city of Pacoti (Northeastern Brazil): a proposed modus operandi of an education founded on the framework of Health and Popular Education. This is a qualitative study of the type "action research" involving 24 CHA. Eight workshops for shared knowledge construction were held. Based on the choice of themes, on the unveiling of common challenges among peers and on the proposals for overcoming them, causing destabilization of previously consolidated knowledge, it became evident that Health and Popular Education can break with the hegemonic alienating logic, inviting individuals to take risks on new ways of producing health.