ACADEMIA CARIOCA PROGRAM AS A PRACTICE OF HEALTH EDUCATION THROUGH DIGITAL INCLUSION IN THE FAMILY HEALTH STRATEGY (SMSRJ-BRAZIL)

Introduction: The health education practices are seen as the embodiment of ideals of instruments for stimulating self-care and health promotion. But before the understanding of the health-disease considering it as the result of factors related to culture, intellect and education is needed. The Academia Carioca Program implemented in 2009 by the Municipal Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro as Health Promotion strategy by offering regular physical activity guided by physical education professional integrated Family Health, acts as such a device considering the individuality the participants. Objective: To present the health education strategy by incorporating computer classes to participants in the Academia Carioca Program as intellectual development proposal in the Municipal Health Center Doctor Alvimar Carvalho (AP52) with support from OTICs-Pedra de Guaratiba. Method: Evaluative analysis and systematic effects of the activity in the behavioral and social attitudes of the 30 participants, 90% of women over 60 years old. Results and Conclusion: The computer classes subsidized topics on prevention and health promotion generating global knowledge gain beyond specific. It was greater autonomy in the actions of daily life and a more critical attitude about their health and community needs. Demonstrating greater awareness of the factors that influence the quality of life correlated to the practices of general practitioner. Paulo Freire, thinker of world pedagogy, says: "teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create possibilities for its own production or construction."