Community Health Agents: health promotion skills for adolescents

Santos, Rosely Leyliane dos; Dias, Maria Socorro de Araújo; Pinto, Antônio Germane Alves; Cavalcante, Edilma Gomes Rocha; Machado, Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa

doi:10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0363

Brasil

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE • Rev. Bras. Enferm. 73 (suppl 4) • 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0363 linkcopy

Community Health Agents: health promotion skills for adolescents

Agentes de Salud Comunitarios: competencias de promoción de salud para adolescentes

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ABSTRACT

Objective: to identify the domains developed by Community Health Agents in health promotion skill towards adolescents.

Method: qualitative study conducted with 16 Community Health Agents, based on the methodological framework of professional skills.

Results: two categories and nine domains of health promotion skills emerged: Knowledge (Concept; Health determinants and conditioning factors; Main population health problems and coping; Intersectoriality); and Skill (Identifying the relationship between health problems; Conducting educational activities; Organizing discussion groups; Proposing and implementing intersectoral actions and establishing articulation with social facilities; Supporting social literacy actions).

Final consideration: it was noted that there were some domains of skills in health promotion of Community Health Agents among adolescents, but there is a need for continuing education regarding the approach, for these professionals, in relation to knowledge and skills of health promotion.

Descriptors: Community Health Workers; Health Promotion; Adolescent; Clinical Competence; Primary Health Care

Domain

Proposal

Knowledge

Health Promotion: concept and strategies;
-Ways to learn and teach in popular education;
-Health-disease process and its determinants and health conditions;
Popular culture and its relation to the educational processes;
-Social risk conditions: violence, unemployment, unprotected childhood, migratory processes, illiteracy, lack or insufficiency of basic infrastructure, others;
-Participation and social mobilization: factors that facilitate and/or hinder collective action;
-Health indicators;
-Concepts operated in contemporary civil society: social movements of struggle and defense of citizenship.
-Main health problems of the population and coping with these;
-Leadership: concept, types and processes of constitution of popular leaders;
-Intersectorality;
-People with special needs: approach, social inclusion and legal rights;
-Information, education and communication: concepts, differences and interdependencies;
-Health of children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. Statutes of children, adolescents and the elderly.

Skills

-Identifying the relationship between health problems and living conditions of the population;
-Guiding individuals and families regarding measures to prevent domestic accidents;
-Identifying situations present in locations that are potentially health promoters;
-Proposing and implement intersectoral actions
-Establishing articulation with social facilities (kindergartens, nursing homes, schools and others);
- Organizing discussion groups;
-Using information and communication resources appropriate to the local reality;
- Guiding the family and/or people with special needs regarding the measures for their maximum social inclusion;
-Implementing reflection activities about their health/disease conditions;
-Supporting social literacy actions of children, adolescents, youth and adults;
-Performing educational activities;
Attending local health council and other local council meetings;
-Guiding individuals regarding self-care;
- Mobilizing the population to attend meetings of the local health council and other local councils;
-Guiding the population on health protection measures (food, personal hygiene, cleaning, conditioning and disposal of waste, care of water and waste, etc.).

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