School as a space for dialogue and health promotion

paths for health education in the context of the Amazon region in Santarém, State of Pará, Brazil

Abstract

The health practices experienced by children in the family environment, supported by issues of cultural diversity, are incorporated into school life, as well as the knowledge about health learned in daily life and in formal education extend beyond school, and both can be aggregated in the various social spaces of insertion. The study aimed to develop health education activities with elementary school students from the Curucuruí village in Santarém, State of Pará, Brazil. A qualitative approach was used, conducted from four intervention actions focused on health education, educational games, drawings, posters, conversation circles and guiding dialogues on individual, collective and environmental health were carried out. The extension activities ratified how much the school and its actors assume a privileged space for the construction of meanings, since in this environment there is a broad interaction between children, through daily exchanges, and it can be a favorable place for facing health-disease problems. Therefore, it is concluded that the actions developed favored the dialogue between education and health through health promotion actions, allowing the knowledge produced in the school environment to be disseminated beyond the classroom.