ADOLESCENT HEALTH: A CHALLENGE FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICE

The Filgueiras neighborhood is about 16 km away from the center of Juiz de Fora city. According to IBGE census (2012), its population comprises 4,463 people, with 14.9% of children, 18.84% of teenagers, 54.85% adults and 11.4% of elderly. Social vulnerabilities identified in the community include low education level, low socioeconomic status, informal labor market, poor quality housing and problems related to poor sanitation. According to PAHO, a health system driven by PHC is responsible for the coverage and universal access to health services, with a family and community focus, promoting equity of care, where the FHS is responsible for coordinating the care. Teenagers’ coverage is a challenge; they do not seek health services. Most deaths occur in adolescence from preventable causes, and actions for the promotion and prevention in health should be implemented through a partnership between health and education sectors. OBJECTIVE: Deployment of the Teenagers’ Group, with the capacity of reframing the local reality, producing actions that may be capable of modifying the local reality. METHODOLOGY: To use Popular Education in Health and Paulo Freire’s Problematizing Methodology to analyze and reframe community events and propose interventions that are protective, ethical, feasible and able to produce strengthening and courage to cope with local adversities and achieve the extramural community. CONCLUSION: By empowering the use and appropriation of the methodology, we expect to actualize and consolidate a group of teenagers who are protagonist of themselves and of improvements in their community.