PERMANENT EDUCATION: RELEVANCE FOR THE QUALIFICATION OF WORK IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN BRAZIL

This work presents as thematic axis permanent education and their possible contributions about the qualification of work in primary health care in Brazil. The objective of this study was to analyze the permanent education as a strategy capable of contributing to reorganize basic care to promote activities of formation at work and by work order to qualify the practices of health professionals that work in APS. This is an analysis about the permanent education and its relationship with the organization of the health service in APS through investment in training of health professionals through the problematization regarding the construction of educative action at work, as well as of educational practices experienced at work, bringing into the debate the importance of significant learning. This study presents as a result the pedagogical ability of permanent education considering the decentralization of the process of formation of the health workers in the APS, aiming to stimulate the creation of spaces for discussion and collective learning. Points to the need for linkage between professionals, management, health services and users aiming the integrality of actions in order to overcome the fragmentation of work. In this perspective the permanent education presents as a strategic capable of contributing to the qualification of the work in the APS through the processing of educational processes and pedagogical practices and health requirements for the organization of services, by means of the articulation between the health system in its various spheres of management, as well as of the training institutions.