A implementação da política nacional de promoção da saúde na atenção primária sob a perspectiva de profissionais de saúde

Abstract

Health promotion provides the involvement of all the actors of doing and being health, in order to be protagonists and active participants in achieving and continuing care. It brings a new view to ensure health in a universal, equitable and integral way that involves political, social, ethical, cultural and spiritual features. The implementation of the policy in primary care focuses on changes in the treatment of users, through actions that reach the full care of the individual and their families, considering the social determinants of health that make up this universe. This study aimed to understand the implementation of the National Policy on Health Promotion in primary care from the perspective of professionals working at this entry into the health system. It was a qualitative exploratory study developed in the city of Benevides, State of Pará, in 2018. We found that professionals knew about this policy and seek to implement it in their actions. However, this perception does not exempt the actions, which are still confused with attributions recommended by the Ministry of Health, or activities with ends in themselves.In primary care is essential to carry out collective health actions, in which everyone must be protagonists for health production. Health professionals should develop awareness of health promotion to users and produce their actions based on praxis, where care is not limited to meeting welfare. Thus, the real change in the praxis and paradigms of health care models is urgent, highlighting the importance of intersectoriality and multiprofessional work for the integral health promotion, its concepts and functioning, which must be capillarized professionals and makers of the health system in all their activities and levels of action and / or management.