Concepções sobre promoção de saúde por enfermeiros docentes do curso técnico em enfermagem de uma cidade do interior de São Paulo

Abstract

Background: Health promotion presents a different view from health, considering the importance of the social and economical dimension where people live, having, into its historical-conceptual base, a non-centralized on disease conception. Heath is understood from a set of five strategies: healthy public policies, heath-friendly environment, reorientation of the health services, reinforce of the community action as well as the personal abilities development. Face such reality, it is necessary to rethink the professional training, overall in health field that may enhance this ne conception on health. This study aimed to assess the conception over the teacher’s health promotion of the nursing technical schools, searching to know how they use this knowledge into their subjects. It is a qualitative descriptive nature study. In this study took part 26 subjects from both genders, teachers of the six nursing technical study in Franca, São Paulo state, with nursing professional formation. It was applied surveys that were made of open questions on how the teachers conceptualized health promotion, and if it was into the context of their classes. The answers were transcript afterwards, grouped and qualitative assessed. It was observed that the most subjects is female (N=21), aged between 30 -50 years old, with teaching time between 1-10 years. The answers were grouped in five categories formed by one or more questions, and that ware formed by similarity in the sense given to subject speeches. We searched to identify in this categories, the five strategies of Health Promotion, however, there were reports that do not fit into any of the proposed categories, neither fit into any of the proposed categories, and nor it was possible to identify some of the strategies of Heath Promotion. Except for Heath-Friendly Environment strategy, that did not find reports in any of the proposed categories, the other ones were easily found in more than one category.