EDUCATION THROUGH WORK FOR HEALTH PROGRAM-HEALTH INTERPROFISIONALITY: A VIVENTIONAL REPORT DURING THE NATIONAL LEPROSY CAMPAIGN IN A PUBLIC SERVICE UNITY IN BELÉM OF PARÁ

Abstract

Leprosy is an infectious, transmissible, persistent notifiable disease that has become a public health problem in Brazil. This study is an viventional report that aimed to describe the experience of an extensionist activity, carried out in a Basic Health Unit (UBS), developed by students from the courses of nursing, dentistry, nutrition and medicine at the Federal University of Pará/UFPa. In view of this, health promotion activities consisted of playful instruments and active participation being guided about the disease during a week on "January Purple". In this sense, the experience did not consist only in exposing the information but had as proposal the exercise of health education based on multidisciplinary action. Thus, the activity made it possible for future professionals to keep in mind the importance of being multipliers of preventive information as health promoting agents.