Associações de mulheres em entidades religiosas: local favorável para educação permanente em saúde

Abstract

The overall goal of this research is to demonstrate how an Association of Women in a religious entity may provide a favorable location for conducting health education with the purpose of providing knowledge in a safe environment while linking individual action and collective research experience that improves women's health and fighting a disease in Brazil that is the third leading cause of death of women in the country according to the Ministry of Health. Women's associations in religious bodies have their own statutes that establish the guidelines to be followed by the women. Through a prior knowledge of the status in Women s Associations in religious entities, the Comprehensive Care Program for Women's Health (CCPWH), knowledge of the Laws of the Unified Health System (UHS) and the program for prevention of cervical cancer, the professionals responsible for promoting health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation may have a conducive place where women individually and collectively feel safe to obtain knowledge, set goals, and achieve promotion and prevention for cervical cancer and overcome barriers faced by women in the Pap smear testing. The hypothesis of the study is that health professionals who work with continuing health education can and must use this environment to perform religious promotion, prevention and rehabilitation of all health policies advocated by the CCPWH. This is a qualitative research study based on hermeneutic-phenomenological directed method for analysis of theoretical studies, documents and texts. The phenomenon was described by the descriptive method for choosing the topic, bibliography, formatting the problem, formulating hypotheses, form reading and cataloging the material, delimitation of the research, data collection, discussion and conclusion. This research was designed through analyzing the status of the Relief Society, the association for women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in conjunction with an analysis of the policies of the UHS with the CCPWH a program for promotion and cervical cancer prevention currently in force in Brazil. An association of women in a religious entity has an extraordinary work; establishing the purpose of this organization of women prepared for the blessings of eternal life by helping them to increase their faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and help the needy. Health education in these locations will strengthen the principles of the UHS and improve the health status of women as a primary purpose. The fulfillment of this purpose will be through classes offered by health professionals and enhanced gospel classes on Sundays and other meetings, also through visiting teaching, welfare service, and compassionate service to the poor and needy. Therefore, come advocate for inclusion or maintenance of continuing health education in women's associations in various religions.