Health education: social representation and everyday act of health professionals
DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.20153902195200
Keywords:
Health Education. Public Health. Social Psychology.Abstract
Education and health are fields of production and application of knowledge for human development. The aim of this study
is to understand the structure of social representations of health professionals on health education and identify educational
practices performed by them in specialized reference units of the Secretary of State Public Health of the city of Belém.
This is a descriptive and exploratory study guided by the Theory of Social Representations. The subjects were 56 health
professionals from five units of reference and a health center in Belém, Pará. The analysis was through descriptive statistics
Program Excel 2007; the data obtained was processed by Evoc 2003. The centrality of the social representation is based
on prevention by means of orientation, aiming at quality of life and health. The everyday practices are based in individual
orientations on the offices of the health professionals facing to the specialties of care of these institutions.