Autocuidado em saúde e a literacia para a promoção da saúde e a prevenção de doenças crônicas na atenção primária a saude

Abstract

Introduction: During academic training, undergraduate students in Nursing carries out various activities in the teaching, research and extension. Guided Activities make up a curricular component non-disciplinary of paramount importance, as it aims to develop projects related to the course, with the help of a preceptor teacher, and can be accomplished through various activities. With that, thinking On this topic, the UNASUS platform offers some training courses for various health professionals, enabling an improvement in some areas of vital importance for professionals. The course titled “Health self-care and literacy for health promotion and prevention of chronic diseases in Primary Health Care” allows us an insight into models, strategies and possibilities for promotion and self-care prevention and chronic disease control transmissible. Objective and Methodology: This experience report aims to integrate the “Activity I” of the guided activities of the undergraduate course in nursing at UFMS, through a course held on the platform UNASUS. Results and Discussions: The course aims to prepare health professionals, as well as students, about intervention models and strategies to promote self-care, prevention and control of chronic diseases non-communicable diseases, acting directly in Primary Health Care to SUS users. The course covers several topics divided into five modules, which contain classes, videos and guides, as well as materials additional support. The modules cover health promotion as origin and concept, brings about the National Policy for the Promotion of Health (PNPS), the importance of health actions in disease prevention, concepts such as care, self-care and supported self-care and health literacy. The course also allows us to discuss interventions in health literacy practices, for example education in health applied to the different cycles of life, making a connection with the information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the digital era in health. Conclusion: The training that the course provides to professionals is for a approach of quality and excellence in the exercise of its practice, being adequate and understandable for users, with daily applicability in professional, personal and interpersonal relationships. References: BRAZIL. FIOCRUZ. Self-Care in Health and Literacy for Health Promotion and Prevention of Chronic Diseases in Care Primary Health. Available at: https://cursos.campusvirtual.fiocruz.br/course/view.php?id=1243 Viewed by last day 06/03/2024