HEALTH EDUCATION AND PRIMARY CARE: MORE THAN EVER

This study analyze the concepts that guide educational practices carried out by professionals working in basic units in the city of Niteroi (RJ). The study was analysis shafts health concepts; the health education process and its relationship with primary care. Health education is seen as a priority activity in the primary care level and includes different approaches in his career historical trajectory. Nos 1990s when primary care gains a certain centrality in the national public agenda, health education features prominently in primary health spaces . In 2012, the dialogic and participatory approach to health education acquires some legitimacy with the institutionalization of Popular Education in Health Policy, and directs the educational activities in a broader logic and critical reading of reality. In this perspective, to understand the dynamics of educational practices carried out in the basic units of the city of Niterói, it is necessary to identify the conceptions that health professionals have both health and health education as primary care. Therefore, the research was based on document analysis, bibliographic the thematic review and interviews with professionals operationalize educational practices that institutional space. The survey results indicated a practice still hegemonic centered on the disease and the gaps in professional training of nurses and doctors in relation to a health education approach comprising a broad view of health, referring to the pursuit of participation, autonomy and the transformation of the reality of users.