Strategic Planning as a tool for the implementation of a Core for Continuing Education in Health

Abstract

The National Policy of Permanent Health Education offers support for the search of critical reflection on the practices of attention, management and training, being an educational process applied to work, enabling changes in relationships, processes, acts of health and in people and a better coordination within and outside the institutions. Implementing the Policy of Permanent Education favors the work management in health, developing managers with a critical look at the working conditions and providing improved SUS service quality. For this implementation we used the Situational Strategic Planning (PES), seeking to recognize the reality by prioritizing macro-problems and employing the explanatory tree tool to identify the critical node, thus proposing, intervention actions. The Continuing Education in Health should work as devices of the Unified Health System to propose changes in health practices and professional practices through critical reflection on the actual practices of real professionals in action in the service network.