PET-SAÚDE: INTERFACE ENTRE A INTERPROFISSIONALIDADE E O CUIDADO COM AS PESSOAS COM DIABETES MELLITUS E HIPERTENSÃO ARTERIAL

Abstract

The Program of Education through Work for Health (PET-Health) is a strategy that advocates actions for reconstruction of professional training and qualification of health professionals, through the integration of teaching, service and community. In the shadow of this look, this work aims to describe, through an exploratory study with qualitative approach, the relevance of interprofessionality for the care of people with diabetes and hypertension, based on the experiences of participants of the Federal University of Catalão (UFCAT) that were provided by PET-Health. The actions developed strengthen and articulate teaching, research, extension and social participation, ensuring a significant improvement of health services, through the constant exchange of experiences in the environments in which they operate and the consolidation of the possibilities of integral care with the proposal of ensuring a vision of the global needs of the individual, family and community, as well as raising a new look to the conformation of knowledge and daily practices. The process is guided by the guideline of universal access to health services and supported by the assimilation of the critical and reflective posture of SUS users and care mediators. It is expected, therefore, that interprofessionality contributes to the expansion of the resolutiveness of Health Care, to bring greater articulation of actions and services in the Health Care Network (SAN). Practices like these should be encouraged, in an attempt to contribute to an expanded approach to Interprofessional Education (IPE) and to make health care conditional to adequate care to the population's health needs.