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The teaching of Popular Education in Health for SUS: experience of articulation between nursing students and Community Healthcare Agents

This article aims to systematize and evaluate a teaching experience of Popular Education in Health (PEH) at undergraduate course in Nursing including Community Healthcare Agents (ACS) as students. The experience allowed the qualification of ACS, which could, through content and methodologies, reflect on their practices in health education, characterized by imposition of norms and behaviors, and create tools for Popular Education. The exchange of knowledge with the ACS and the awareness of the population reality of life/health enabled the nursing students to construct a broad view of health and understand the transformative character of EPS in the context of the Unified Health System (SUS). The experience allowed to train nurses in tune with the challenges of SUS building and to qualify ACS for the exercise of EPS, recognized as a public policy required for the consolidation of that system.

Health Education; Popular Education; Enablement of human resources for health; Community Health Agents; Nursing Education


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