A interação entre educação em saúde e saberes populares: um estudo sobre o VER-SUS Santa Maria

Abstract

This work is the Course Conclusion Work (TCC), performed as a requirement for graduation in the Social Work course at the Federal University of Santa Maria. Health education issues are presented with theoretical developments on the models of the health-disease process, recognizing the Social Determinants of Health (DSS) model as significant. In addition, the theoretical trajectory on the Unified Health System (SUS) and the process of municipalization of health are followed to bring health services and actions closer to the local realities of the territories. It follows, as a theoretical framework, permanent health education with a focus on the SUS Experiences and Internships project (VER-SUS), which justifies conducting a documentary research based on personal reports of this project made by the author of this work in 2018 and 2019, a period in which she participated in the modalities of living and facilitating, respectively. In this sense, the research aimed to identify and analyze the elements that constitute popular education in health education from the experiences at VER-SUS Santa Maria / RS. In addition, the research accumulated as methodological procedures the technique of content analysis with deepening in the thematic analysis. In this sense, results are obtained by categorizing experience into three thematic categories: "Mobilization", "Dialogues" and "Construction and Movement", representing the process of building knowledge from the perception of popular knowledge. Finally, this perspective of health education in health education in Social Work is highlighted, whose ethical-political project is integrated with the movement for the democratization of health.