Experience of remote training of community leadership in Health Unic System during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

This work aims to promote training spaces for community leaders, under the political-pedagogical dimension of Popular Health Education (EPS), for the full and equitable exercise of the principles of popular participation and social control in the spaces that compose Primary Healthcare of the Unified Health System (SUS) in João Pessoa, State of Paraíba, Brazil. The experience of the course took place through the holding of 11 virtual meetings held via the Google Meet platform, weekly, for three consecutive months, in which 11 external facilitators who work with EPS in a theoretical-practical way, 4 teachers and 4 extension workers participated. and 51 course participants. As a result, it was noticed that the project helped in the formation of possible community leaders and in the ideation of a future from a problematizing teaching-learning, directed to the reality in which these actors are inserted, arising in all those involved a feeling of belonging, hoping. It was concluded that the course, through the exchange of knowledge and popular practices, proved the effectiveness of EPS as a powerful instrument for strengthening and effectivation of popular participation in health in the SUS, favoring the formation of community leaders, even in remote teaching.