Health education for adolescents serving socio-educational measure of internment

university extension experience

Abstract

Health education actions are presented as mechanisms for promoting health and quality of life. In this scenario, the objective was to describe the experience of aprofessor and students of the medical course at a public university in planning and developing health education actions with adolescents serving socio-educa-tional measures of internment. This is an experience report, descriptive and with a qualitative approach. The experiences of the professor and students of the med¬ical course were organized into two topics, namely: Planning and development of health education actions; Analysis of the educational practices carried out. The health education practices carried out were focused on self-care and developed with adolescents in a context that contemplates multiple aspects of biopsychoso-cial vulnerability. Thus, it is believed that the activities carried out show that ini-tiatives that expand access to information and awareness for adolescents serving socio-educational measures of internment are fundamental and viable, while at the same time promoting the approximation of this vulnerable public to subjects linked to the university and the care network, contributing to their strengthening as citizens, subjects of rights, and, consequently, to their social reintegration.