Educação permanente em saúde na região norte do Brasil: um estudo sobre os profissionais de nível não superior

Abstract

This work had as main objective to identify and discuss the themes of the educational offerings demanded and the professional categories pointed out by the State Plans of Permanent Educa tion in Health of the North Brazil (quadrennium 2019 - 2022), analyzing them with the profes sions existing in the region, referring to fundamental, middle and technical level workers, who attend the Unified Health System (SUS). To raise the issues of the required qualifications, the list of professions that make up the region's workforce, the professional categories mentioned in the plans and their representativeness in this universe were specific objectives of this study. Such information is essential to the planning of more assertive educational strategies, support ing the actions of the National Policy of Permanent Education in Health. The research was qualitative and quantitative, executed in the phases: investigation and data collection, analysis of the cut of the need for educational actions in the Permanent Education State Plans (2019- 2022), survey of existing professions in the SUS, data comparison and analysis of results. The method chosen for the data treatment was the Content Analysis. There were selected 55 training topics listed by the plans. The themes about “Reception”, “Mental Health”, “Process Manage ment/Management” and “Health Information Systems” were recurrently marked. The region's workforce proved to be made of 126 categories. To receive the educational actions, 23 profes sional categories were mentioned in the PEEPS as the target audience, making a total of 15% compared to the list of categories existing in the region. The PEEPS proved to be an extremely important instrument for the management of PNEPS, however they showed weaknesses, such as the lack of standard in its elaboration. The results of this study can be useful in supporting and formulating educational strategies within the scope of the Ministry of Health and in provid ing subsidies to students, health professionals and researchers interested in the subject.