Integral Attendance of Adolescence: Health and Education Brazilian Policies and The Health in School Program

Jaqueline Roberta da Silva

(UNIFRAN, Brazil)

Abstract: This article intends to discuss the need for comprehensive care for adolescents, whereas this phase of human development is complex, interdisciplinary and intersectoral actions are required, such as the proposal of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on the Health Promoting School. Through bibliographic research it was possible to identify how much the two most comprehensive policies of the Brazil are unified in the quest for the integrality care of adolescence. According to the IBGE/PNAD, 94.2% of school-age young people are enrolled in school, but few of them have a link with health units. To reach the magnitude of these two public policies, the evolution of health and education policies in Brazil will be discussed. It is worth highlighting that there are many contradictions in conceptions and practices until we reach the 2007 meeting the policies with the Health in School Program, based on the guidelines of the PAHO Health Promoting School, and even though there is much to go of each sector, however, the partnership between them contributes to the consolidation of SUS principles, comprehensiveness, universality, equity and social control, as well as the emancipatory purpose of LDB, resulting in good indices in the agreed units.

Key words: health promoting school, education, health promotion