Educação permanente em saúde: tecendo reflexões acerca das possibilidades e dos desafios nos serviços de saúde

Abstract

The permanent health education was adopted in order to change the public network into a teaching and learning network during this study. This work presents some reflections about the educational process in health showing some challenges and possibilities of this device in health services. Therefore, to achieve this it was made a revision in the references related to the topic. The information found show that among them there are many challenges to overcome the traditional education model; allowing the care with the user needs and the user context beyond the professionals’ sensitization to the insertion of this device in the health service; and one of these great possibilities is to implement an action-reflection-action process in the workplace mainly creating centers of permanent health education. However, it is evident that educational practices should involve – teaching, health management, attention practice, and social control – to be actually effective and suitable to the proposals of the National Politics in the Permanent Health Education.