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Health’s integrality - guiding changes in the graduation of the new professionals

Alberto Durán González 1
Marcio José de Almeida 1

Abstract The strong changes happened in the health sector with the creation of the Brazilian
Unified Health System had forced a reflexion about the formation of the new health professionals.
However, the substitution of the dominant health care system, centered in the illness, hospital and super specialized assistance, by attention’s models that value the integrality, the humanized care and the health’s promotion, was not yet conquered and depends, in great measured, on the formation’s profile and the practice of the health professionals. It is in the distance between the new professional’s formation and the user’s necessities of the system that is the great obstacle of the relation of health services and health education. This essay tries to formulate an understanding about the necessity of a more integral formation for a more integral service. It aims to give subsidize to affirm that the integrality of the health actions must be preceded by the integrality of the thought and health education.
Key words Human Resources Formation, Teaching and integrality
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Departamento de Saúde
Coletiva, Centro de
Ciências da Saúde,
Universidade Estadual de
Londrina. R. Robert Koch
60, Vila Operária.
86038-440 Londrina PR. [e-mail] Resumo As fortes mudanças ocorridas no setor saúde, com a criação do Sistema Único de Saúde, forçaram um repensar sobre a formação dos novos profissionais de saúde. Porém, a substituição do sistema dominante de atenção à saúde, centrado na doença, hospitalar e superespecializado, por modelos de atenção que valorizem a integralidade, o cuidado humanizado e a promoção da saúde, ainda não foi conquistada e depende, em grande medida, do perfil de formação e da prática dos profissionais de saúde. É no descompasso entre a formação dos novos profissionais e as