5 ILLUSTRATED GUIDES TO SUPORT COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE. It’s a fact: the community health workers / CHW (“Agentes Comunitários de Saúde – ACS”) have an immeasurable responsibility in the family health strategy, since the confidence established with the community, directly reflects on public health. In northern Brazil, the cultural, climatic and unique gastronomic exerting undeniable influence on how health is established, a situation that put us in front of an important need: to regionalize standard instructions taught to CHW, and made exclusively to them, with instructions on how to proceed in each health risk situation; with content and language compatible with their socio-economic and cultural level, as well as the cultural habits found here. Therefore, the objective is to present five illustrated Manuals, created in order to be a complete source of information and training to CHW. METHOD. It was created in the form of comics, and named by "Guia Pai d’égua* de apoio aos ACS”; with the respective volumes about Diabetes, Hypertension, Children's Health, Men's Health and Aging Health, and a simple, objective and accessible language, as well as playful illustrations. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION It's a big step in the search of primary care, CHW and home care program appreciation, making stronger the bridge of healthier families, more conscious, informed and concerned about their members and their community. * Typical slang of the northern Brazil, associated with "wonderful", "very good", "cool."