Integrality, health professional education, health education and SUS proposals: a conceptual review

We understand the integrality in people's care, groups and collectivity having the client as a historical, social and political subject, integrated to his family context, to the environment and the society in which he is inserted. In this scenery the importance of education actions in health is...

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Published in:Ciência & saude coletiva 2007-03, Vol.12 (2), p.335-342
Main Authors: Machado, Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa, Monteiro, Estela Maria Leite Meirelles, Queiroz, Danielle Teixeira, Vieira, Neiva Francenely Cunha, Barroso, Maria Graziela Teixeira
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Language:Portuguese
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Health education
Professional education
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Summary:We understand the integrality in people's care, groups and collectivity having the client as a historical, social and political subject, integrated to his family context, to the environment and the society in which he is inserted. In this scenery the importance of education actions in health is highlighted as an integrating strategy of a collective knowledge that translates in the individual his autonomy and emancipation. Based on this comprehension the study aims to reflect on the principle of the integrality as an axis director of the education actions in health. The education in health as a pedagogical and political process requests the development of a critical and reflexive thinking, allowing to reveal the reality and to propose transforming actions, while historical and social subject able to propose and to give opinions in the decisions of health for his own care, of his family and of the collectivity.
ISSN:1413-8123
1678-4561
DOI:10.1590/S1413-81232007000200009