Programa Saúde na Escola: a intersetorialidade nas políticas de saúde e educação no município de Parintins-AM

Abstract

Intersectorality follows the opposite logic of issues involving the centralization and sectorization of social public policies. The Health in School Program (PSE) works as an intersectoral policy, which aims to contribute to the development of students in the public school system, promoting health, intellectual, physical and social growth. The program carries out actions in schools, monitoring and analyzing nutritional, oral and ophthalmological health, vaccination, and checking the blood pressure of participants, among others. Thus, it is possible to develop quality of life and education, through promotions in the school environment, overcoming the fragmentation of existing public policies. This study has as its general objective to analyze the management of the Health in School Program, carried out in actions by the Basic Health Unit-Tia Leó and the Geny Bentes de Jesus State School, considering the intersectorality in public education and health policies, in the city of ParintinsAM and distributed in specific objectives: Characterize the Health in School Program (PSE), considering the expected guidelines and the reality of the city of Parintins-AM; Identify the main challenges of intersectoral action in health and education policies, based on the School Health Program; and Analyze the vision of professionals who execute the School Health Program (PSE) in the city of Parintins-AM. To understand this study, the Dialectical Historical Materialism method was used, using the qualitative method, through documentary research, bibliographic research and field research, with interviews with professionals who manage the PSE actions in the institutions. Through this study, it was possible to analyze the management of the actions, identifying missing elements in the execution. This research is a case study, in which only two institutions (School and UBS) participated and contributed to the approximation of reality. It is essential to state that it is necessary to develop more PSE actions, with the objective of valuing, enabling and strengthening people's access to services of public health and education policies. It is important to highlight that despite the possibility of creating intersectoral articulation in public health and education policies, based on the foreseen guidelines and guidance on the management process, there is difficulty in materializing the concept of intersectorality in social public policies.