SOCIAL WORK AND PERMANENT HEALTH EDUCATION: THE POTENTIAL FOR INTEGRATION SERVICE-LEARNING

Abstract

This article aim the provide reflection about of permanent health education, strategy adopted in thehealth system of Brazil (SUS) for formation and health work. From the dialectical method contribution,the bibliographic study, the data collection in focus groups and observation in the field, try tounderstand the limits of coping and alternatives of the subjects in the contemporary scene - studentsof social work and health workers. The results show that the EPS is difficult to exercise, since it searchthe break with vertically integrated practices and the ethical and political commitment to publichealth, putting on reflection values and conceptions about the context where they bear public policy,the capitalist system. It is considered that the strategy enhances the teaching-service integration andthe search for collective responses to problems.

Descriptors: Social Work; Health policy; Permanent health.