HUMANIZATION AND ETHICS IN HEALTH PROMOTION: EDUCATION PROJECT FOR INTEGRAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN (PESII)

Introduction and objective: Health education has been approached by several projects to encourage healthy behavior in people. The Education Project for Integral Health in Childhood (PESII) of a charity association for children in Fortaleza, Ceará aims to promote health. It receives medical students and tutors to exercise care, involving them in the study of ethical and humane principles. The objective of this work is to relate the experience of medical students in health education activities carried out in this association. Methods Scholars developed health promotion activities. Themes like nutrition and vaccination in children were highlighted. Contact with the parents made in advance informed them about the activity and their participation; the pursuit of knowledge and the dynamic organization on the topics through health education practices with children and their parents were the goals. Results and conclusion: The contact with students gave the academics proximity to medical practice. Besides the information worked with children and their parents, the academics incorporated concepts that the doctor-patient relationship like the respect to individual beliefs and the need for overlapping formality with responsibility. The need for affection and humility was felt when caring for the human-being as to his individuality. The reflections on the experiences during the project, showed that the experience provided rich learning about the doctor/patient relationship, since, through the interaction with the community, principles of ethics and humanization in health were exercised, experiencing a little of the reality of Medicine and its challenges.