Citation

dos Santos AAG, Silva RM, Machado Mde F, Vieira LJ, Catrib AM, Jorge HM. Cien. Saude Colet. 2012; 17(5): 1275-1284.

Vernacular Title

Sentidos atribuídos por profissionais à promoção da saúde do adolescente.

Affiliation

Departamento de Saúde, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Crato, CE, 63105-000, alizandragomes@ig.com.br.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Associacao Brasileira de Pos-Graduacao em Saude Coletiva)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

22634820

Abstract

This article analyzes the meanings attributed to practices that promote adolescent health by 47 professionals from the Family Health Program in Fortaleza in the State of Ceará. It is a qualitative study in which semi-structured interviews enabled the production of data, subsequently organized according to content analysis, resulting in the following core themes: promoting health associated with injury prevention; limitation of health promotion to the school environment; the lack of health promotion for adolescents in the healthcare service; and partnerships as a viable way of promoting health for adolescents. The health promotion actions were developed in a timely manner and mostly in the pre-natal, family planning, and cancer prevention programs. The health professionals found the school environment to be an important and viable place for a partnership for health promotion actions for adolescents. There was evidence, albeit incipient, of the health professionals' desire to reorient this practice in the healthcare service.

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