Brazilian Health System: The Interface between Intersectoriality and Interprofessional Education

Maria Isabel Barros Bellini
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Maria Isabel Barros Bellini: School of Humanities, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

International Journal of Health and Medical Sciences, 2017, vol. 3, issue 2, 54-58

Abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) [1] and the Ministry of Health/Brazil pointed the Interprofessional Education (IPE) as innovative tool that can play a significant role in addressing the challenges in the health network in different countries.IIn this regard, intersectorality is indicated in studies and researches pesquisas [2] as a strategy to break the historical fragmentation of professional practices and public social policies and to strengthen the links between them. Researches involving these two strategies IPE and Intersectoriality in Brazil are scarce and therefore reinforce the importance of this article which presents preliminary reflections on research that is being carried out in the Brazilian context. To know and analyze the implications and consonance of Interprofessional Education and Intersectoriality in the process of work of teams of health network empowering actions and organization of teams. To contribute to the reduction of challenges faced by health systems and the consequent consolidation of Health policy in Brazil. This research that uses mixed methods combining quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigating reality, exposing facts and their consequences that are connected to social, political, economic and cultural. Observation, interviews, and focus group. The project is at the stage of theoretical density. The preliminary analyses indicate the importance of the following: employee participation to advances in Health policy; training based on human rights; studies in interdisciplinary perspective; participation and creation of other scenarios for collective practices; education and implementation of management activities and the construction of "networks" of various relationships with intersection and guarantee of rights.

Keywords: Interprofessional Education; Intersectoriality; Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.20469/ijhms.3.30005-2

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