Formação dos trabalhadores de educação e saúde do Programa Saúde na Escola em um município do Vale do Rio Pardo.

Abstract

This present study intends to analyze, comprehend and explain how the process of development does and formation of health and education professionals that are engaged to public Scholars Units from the Programa Saúde na Escola (PSE) [Health at School Program] happens, in a middle-sized municipal area at Vale do Rio Pardo, RS. This study still aims to analyze and understand how the educational practice of the professional formation in the PSE are developed; to describe and analyze the academic and continued formation of the PSE professionals; to explain the support and qualification strategies of these professionals for the activities development, and to comprehend the work conditions in which the activities are conducted and to propose alternatives to amplify the professional formation in a manner that they are able to fully perform the activities that were proposed. The relevance of this study is related to the lack of implementation and reflection about the educational practices destined to professionals that allow the comprehension and amplification of the PSE. In order to these reflections, it was decided to make a qualitative and quantitative research, involving eight female professionals from the education and health area of the PSE. The data were obtained through interviews applied at the professionals’ work place, guided by a semi structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed according to the Bardin’s presumptions. The study reveals that the work conditions in which the interviewed professional are submitted consist the main constraint of the done actions, as well as the of the knowledge formation process that were developed. The professionals have lack of formal formation to perform their activities, and with the objective of turning this situation around, the main strategy adopted by the professional is the “learning by doing”.