| Literature DB >> 17680088 |
Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa Machado1, Estela Maria Leite Meirelles Monteiro, Danielle Teixeira Queiroz, Neiva Francenely Cunha Vieira, Maria Graziela Teixeira Barroso.
Abstract
We understand the integrality in people's care, groups and collectivity having the client as a historical, social and political subject, integrated to his family context, to the environment and the society in which he is inserted. In this scenery the importance of education actions in health is highlighted as an integrating strategy of a collective knowledge that translates in the individual his autonomy and emancipation. Based on this comprehension the study aims to reflect on the principle of the integrality as an axis director of the education actions in health. The education in health as a pedagogical and political process requests the development of a critical and reflexive thinking, allowing to reveal the reality and to propose transforming actions, while historical and social subject able to propose and to give opinions in the decisions of health for his own care, of his family and of the collectivity.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17680088 DOI: 10.1590/s1413-81232007000200009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cien Saude Colet ISSN: 1413-8123