Cómo diseñar talleres para promover la salud en grupos comunitarios

Abstract

One of the strategies of health promotion is to develop life skills people considering themselves as the main health resource. A workshop has to get its participants become «asset» to make decisions and create health, focusing on the development and acquisition of skills in a motivating group and in order to achieve health objectives. The concepts behind the design of a workshop are: participatory planning, training, meaningful learning, group learning and participatory techniques. The steps to follow to design a workshop and facilitate their application are: Stage 0, founding; initial stage, host and initial evaluation; central or construction stage based learning in the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and skills, and final stage or evaluation.

Pistas para potencializar grupos na Atenção Primária à Saúde

“…The group is so cohesive that the members help each other, they support each other and are united with each other as they are with their own coordinators, which leads to another remarkable characteristic of the group which is the effective participation in the proposed activities (8,13,28) .…”

“…Group activities in PHC can enable the health situation of the users to be monitored, which is a tool that can streamline the professionals' work because it decreases the demand for consultations (3) . Streamlining financial resources and the work of professionals is important to make PHC services accessible to all countries in the world; however, the main purpose of using the group strategy, at this level of care, is based on the possibility of developing characteristics such as cooperation, partnerships, communication, critical and reflective adaptation to reality, among others aspects regarding the sustainable development of communities (5)(6)(7)(8) .…”

“…When conducted properly, the groups work to create a collective knowledge, a reflection regarding the reality experienced by the group members (5,8,11) , which constitutes a potentializing health promotion tool.…”

Movilización social y determinantes sociales de la salud: proceso educativo en comunidad rural de Jalisco, México<br>Social mobilization and social determinants of health: educational process in rural community of Jalisco, Mexico

“…La propuesta de trabajo también deberá analizarse junto con otros modelos y supuestos teóricos de trabajo, por ejemplo el planteado por Hernández, Paredes y Marín (2014). Ellos describen que el diseño de un taller se fundamenta en la planificación participativa, en capacitar, en el aprendizaje significativo, aprender en grupo y técnicas participativas.…”

Así funcionan las transferencias condicionadas: Buenas prácticas a 20 años de implementación

“…Some countries have introduced complementary mechanisms to promote behavioral changes. In Mexico, for example, community workshops focused on selfcare seek to reinforce behavioral changes related to health and nutrition; however, the impacts of these workshops have not been documented, and evidence has shown that simply providing information is not enough to achieve sustainable behavioral changes (European Food Information Council, 2014;Hernández-Díaz, Paredes-Carbonell and Marín Torrens, 2014).…”