Narratives in socio-environmental health: potentialities in health training

Abstract

This paper discusses the potentiality of using narratives and field diaries for and in health education in the module ‘Encounters and Production of Narratives’ of the Work in Health Axis, which is part of the curriculum of Health Courses of the Health and Society Institute of the Baixada Santista Campus of the Federal University of São Paulo. Discourse analysis was used as a tool for analyzing field diaries and narratives from 2017 and 2019. Gradual changes promoted by narrative encounters linked to the social-environmental health content introduced in the module can be seen in the statements. The discourse in the diaries and narrative is permeated with polysemic gaps that give new meanings to the learning. Thus, a shift from the familiar and reproduction of the hegemonic become evident, adopting a perspective that advocates for the guarantee of rights, including the right to health, and expresses an expanded understanding of the health and disease process and its relationship to the socio-environmental issue.