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This article aimed to reflect on the conceptual basis of permanent education in health, in the light of the concepts of reproduction, de Bourdieu, and counter-hegemony, of Gramsci. It critically analyzes the interfaces of permanent education in health with the policy, management and organization of health services, as well as the counter-hegemonic processes, in the creation of spaces to promote transformations in health practices. It also seeks to raise a set of hypotheses that enable studies on permanent education in health, its challenges and potentialities within the scope of Brazilian Unified Health System implementation.

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Quality and universal health care is a right that should be guaranteed through public policies, proper funding, and through the adequate training of the health professionals. One of the strategies identified to overcome this challenge is the Education for the Work in Health Program (Programa de Educação para o Trabalho em Saúde, PET-Saúde, in the Portuguese acronym; PET-Health henceforth), which has the goal of promoting the interaction of students and professors with the health services. The goal of the present study was to compare, using the results of the 2013 National Nursing Student Performance Exam (Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes dos cursos de Enfermagem, in Portuguese), the performance of the individuals who took part in the mentioned program with that of those who did not. It is an observational study, with a cross-sectional and analytical perspective, which was conducted between February and June 2017. The research analyzed the performance through the weighted arithmetic means regarding general training, professional training and Collective Health. The sample was composed of 30,289 students, 876 of which took part in the PET-Health. The students involved with the program performed better in every segment, with a statistically significant difference (p < 0.001) in comparison to those who did not take part in the program. The results indicate that the program in question has the power to understand the need for training within the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS, in the Portuguese acronym) regarding the knowledge on Collective Health and the professional area, which should be a guiding element in the development of the syllabuses of Nursing Courses.

The article examines recent trends in the way doctors enter the labor market in the light of the regulation of labor relations in the perception of key informants who work in the public and private sectors of the health system in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The study showed that, in the perception of the interviewees, there is a growing trend of insertion of doctors as a legal entity conditioned by the regulation of labor relations and the contracting policy of establishments providing health care services. In general, the ‘pejotização’ (hiring free of labor rights/illegal hiring) of doctors was associated with the loss of autonomy of these professionals in relation to the terms of employment and the conditions for performing the work. The article concludes that the illegal hiring and insertion of doctors is presented as part of the more general movement of cheapening the workforce associated with outsourcing, and indicates that there is room for the exploitation of policies aimed at the management of workers who seek to attract and fix doctors in the Unified Health System.

This article aimed to analyze the learner’s acting-learning and the educating-acting of the educators in the teaching-learning movement in an Intermediate Level Technical Course in Nursing promoted by the School of Technical Formation in Health of Brazilian Unified Healht System. The methodology had a qualitative, exploratory, case study approach, anchored in Paulo Freire’s framework. Twelve students and five teachers participated in this study, with data collected from December 2014 to September 2015 through semi-structured interviews, observations recorded in a field diary and document analysis. The use of innovative and problematizing methodologies showed that the dialogue provided the construction and strengthening of bonds, contextualization of the theoretical content based on the territory and the students’ reading of the world in search of a dialogical relation. The formative potential of Freire’s thinking guided reflection on practice in dialogues, with a view to constituting emancipatory educational processes. We conclude that the dialogue provided a close relationship between educators and learners, revealing itself as an idea/force, favoring the sensitive and critical dynamics that permeated and constituted the teaching-learning movement for students in a context of social vulnerability.

The objective of the study was to analyze the process of establishment of Continuing Education in Health, identifying its transformations, continuities and ruptures in the socio-historic context from the 1970s to 2005. The study is based on the theoretical-methodological framework of the Critical Analysis of Discourse. Based on the interviews made with the representatives of the development and management of the Continuing Education in Health policy in different historic moments, we attempted to understand the context, the texts and the social actors that compose the discourse in each period of time. The results indicate a process characterized by continuities and ruptures, and influenced by the ideologies that mark the discourse variations in each different period. Therefore, the discourses regarding the centrality of the work, with its demands for professionalization, qualification and training, coexist with the discourses regarding the centrality of the individual and with their need to know and learn in and with everyday life. We understand that Continuing Education in Health in Brazil is going through a process of reconfiguration under certain political, ideological and epistemological influences.

We present lessons that have resulted from formation activities of managers conducted in Portugal in the context of primary health care reform and in the Portuguese-speaking African countries, regarding planning and management of hospital services. and public health. We describe three action-formation programs conducted by the International Public Health Unit of the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine-Lisbon, with the support of Portuguese and international partners such as the World Health Organization, and the Institute of Social Medicine of Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. The programs were developed on the basis of identifying participants’ skills needs and focused on solving concrete problems in order to help managers address the difficulties inherent in reform processes. Despite their intrinsic value, they are not sufficient by themselves, as other mechanisms such as the continued monitoring of managers, incentive systems consistent with the objectives of reforms, tools and resources (funding, information systems, qualified staff) are always needed and sufficient to implement the changes. In addition, the sustainability of capacity-building interventions needs continued support from policy makers.

This text aimed to share questions and reflections provoked by the challenge of organizing the syllabus project, in cycle regime, of the health courses of the universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia. Inspired by the American University system, which has colleges as the initial level of training, the first cycle of the health course is composed of an Interdisciplinary Bachelor in Health, lasting three years, and a proposal for training teachers for high school with a focus on Health Promotion, Quality of Life and Inclusive Education, still in preliminary phase of elaboration, reinforcing the integration of the university into the general system of education. The inspiration is the work and life of Anísio Teixeira, which reveals itself in two planes: in his project of a Popular University and in the concept of the democratic school, incorporated as a practical effect in the model of Escola Parque, especially in the themes of integral, inclusive education, founded on concrete practices. Regarding the teaching-learning processes present in the Anisian work, the text highlights the value of critical pedagogies founded on the ability to ‘learn by doing’ and the role of science and technology as a cultural distinctive of modernity.