O desafio de capacitar profissionais da Atenção Básica, em aleitamento materno e alimentação complementar

Abstract

This paper describes the implementation of a strategy called Brazil, breastfeed and feed (BBF), in Embu das Artes municipality, in São Paulo downtown. BFF, which started in 2012, aims to qualify the work process of basic care professionals, in order to reinforce and encourage breastfeeding and health feeding promotion for children younger the two in the scope of the Brazilian Public Health System, known in Brazil as SUS. This initiative is a result of integrating two Health Ministry’s important actions: Brazilian Breastfeeding Network (BBN) and the National Strategy for Healthy Complementary Feeding (NSHCF), which joined themselves to perform a new strategy that is committed to create human resources in basic care. In Embu das Artes, BFF began with a workshop to form tutors, carried out with Taboão da Serra municipality, forming 14 tutors in August 2014. Between May and October, the tutors carried out 37 workshops, in 15 Health Basic Unities. To each unity, it was necessary an individual planning, considering the amount of professionals e a place for the workshops. 75% of the professionals acting in basic care were enabled. It was a great challenge to conciliate agendas, places, the professionals’ schedules in such a specific theme as breastfeeding and complementary feeding. The methodology used in the workshops benefited the teams’ interaction and the combined elaboration of action plans to improve the indexes pointes in current researches.