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Integrality, health professional education, health education and SUS proposals - a conceptual review

Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa Machado 1
Estela Maria Leite Meirelles Monteiro 2
Danielle Teixeira Queiroz 3
Neiva Francenely Cunha Vieira 4
Maria Graziela Teixeira Barroso 4

Abstract We understand the integrality in people’s care, groups and collectivity having the client as a historical, social and political subject, integrated to his family context, to the environment and the society in which he is inserted. In this scenery the importance of education actions in health is highlighted as an integrating strategy of a collective knowledge that translates in the individual his autonomy and emancipation. Based on this comprehension the study aims to reflect on the principle of the integrality as an axis director of the education actions in health. The education in health as a pedagogical and political process requests the development of a critical and reflexive thinking, allowing to reveal the reality and to propose transforming actions, while historical and social subject able to propose and to give opinions in the decisions of health for his own care, of his family and of the collectivity.
Key words Integrality, Education in health,
Health promotion
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Universidade de Fortaleza
- UNIFOR. Av Washington
Soares 1321, Bairro Edson
Queiroz. 60811-905
Fortaleza CE. [e-mail] 2
Universidade de
Pernambuco.
3
Mestre em Enfermagem
Comunitária/ UFC.
4
Universidade Federal do
Ceará.

Resumo Entendemos a integralidade no cuidado de pessoas, grupos e coletividade tendo o usuário como sujeito histórico, social e político, articulado ao seu contexto familiar, ao meio ambiente e a sociedade na qual se insere. Neste cenário se evidencia a importância das ações de educação em saúde como estratégia integradora de um saber coletivo que traduza no indivíduo sua autonomia e emancipação. Com base nesta compreensão o estudo