We report the experience generated by the union between the projects PalhaSUS and Family Health Strategy for Homeless People (ESF POP RUA), identifying (i) their methodological affinity with popular health education and (ii) the singularity of the street, which is the best environment for this union. The encounter was mediated, by one side, by the Coordination of Family Health and the Center for Culture, Science and Health, from the city government of Rio de Janeiro, and by the other side, by the PalhaSUS project developed at Oswaldo Cruz Institute, which was introduced in the formative process of the first ESF POP RUA team. After the activities, Health Agents have aggregated a new role: clowns mediating health promotion with joy, confirming the potential of integrating Dialogy of Laughter in actions and policies to fight poverty.
PalhaSUS; Street health; Laugh dialogy; Popular education; Popular participation