Educação em saúde para transformar o mundo: uma experiência na Tanzânia

Abstract

The dissertation presents the impacts of the community health volunteer course in the rural communities of Morogoro / Tanzania, highlighting the challenging situations encountered and the unprecedented viable mobilized by the community to transform the local reality. The course was developed by the Laboratório de Inovação Tecnológica em Saúde (LAIS) and the Secretaria de Educação a Distância (SEDIS) of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), being made available, online, through the Virtual Learning Environment of the SUS (AVASUS) and mediated, in person, in the Tanzanian rural communities of Berega Village; Mtakujia Village; Massai Village of Parakuyo; Mvomero Village, Dumila Village and Kimambae Village. The objective of the research was based on the systematization process and approach, to analyze the impacts of the community health volunteer course on rural Tanzanian assisted communities. For the embodiment of the research, we rely on the research methodology of the group of studies of Educational Practices in Motion (GEPEM), observing the relationships and regularities established between the development of the course and the thought of Paulo Freire, taking as a foundation the categories dialogicity, awareness, limited situations and unprecedented feasible. As a theoretical contribution, we seek the studies of Freire (1980; 1996; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2018); Pernambuco (1994; 2006); Rego (2006); Gadotti (2007); Freitas (2004), among other authors. The organization of the data was through the collection of technical information about the course on the AVASUS platform and the application of questionnaires made available through Google Forms, with the participation of thirteen students of the course and se The students of the course began to recognize themselves as amplifying agents of the acquired knowledge and sought viable possibilities to bring health education to other Tanzanian communities.ven collaborators who mediate the actions, four Tanzanians and three Brazilians. From the actions developed through the course, we observed that the assisted rural communities changed their health habits and managed to soften the high rates of infections, diseases and preventable deaths. The students of the course began to recognize themselves as amplifying agents of the acquired knowledge and sought viable possibilities to bring health education to other Tanzanian communities. The difficulties of locomotion are pointed out by the students and collaborators of Tanzania as a limit situation to be overcome, something that in Berega Village is being minimized through a financial fund, organized by the community itself to assist the agents in the locomotion to the most remote locations, aiming to expand the offer of the course.