Extension actions to the promotions of humanized childbirth: capacitating of communitarian agents of health

Abstract

The education in health it’s a strategy used on work’s daily routine of the Health Communitarian Agents (ACS), on the construction and fortification of social knowledge and on health in community, could being used also to encourage the accession of humanized practices to women on childbirth process. The goal of this work it’s to report the experience of the members of Core for Extension and Research in Women’s Health of State University of Feira de Santana on realization of I Capacitation about the Humanized Childbirth to health communitarian agents, with emphases to the role of the extension actions on the humanized childbirth promotion. This activity composes the execution of the extension Project “Prenatal Service of low risk: humanizing the attending to woman on pregnancy and childbirth's cycle” approved by resolution CONSEPE 93/2002. The capacitation was executed in the Social Urban Center in the city of Feira de Santana-BA. It has as target public the Health Communitarian Agents linked to Basic Health Unit of the said center. To realize the capacitation, were made scientific and administrative sections to the planning, execution and evaluation of the propose, with the delimitations of relevant subjects, by the demand of the community attended with the participation of the Nurse of unit. The techniques used in the capacitation were the dialogued exposition and conversation circle. At the end of this capacitation, the health communitarian agents reported the importance of the subject to their professional daily routine on the accompaniment to the pregnant, at time that the core members realized the positive impact of the extension actions as one more narrow strategy between the many institutions. Mainly it was observed the possibility of defense strengthening by the childbirth humanization, by means of awareness to the knowledge propagation about humanized practices on the attending to the woman on childbirth moment. In this perspective, it conceives the social relevance of the health communitarian agents' actions to the formation of community knowledge by the direct interaction on the actions of education in health. In this way, it considers that the extension activities it’s of extreme importance both community and academy, for allow glimpse the inseparability between teach, research and extension making the academic living closer to the daily routine of the community, in ways to propose a relation about exchange of knowledge mainly about woman’s health.