The Interinstitutional joint program in health: UFPR and thehealth system of Colombo Municipality

Abstract

The Interinstitutional Articulation Health Program, carried out in Colombo municipality (Paraná State– Brazil), aims at promoting the building of joint proposals that provide institutions with reciprocal feedback, leading to and legitimating changes in the process of health promotion and care delivery. Therefore, it hasbeen developed in three Health Units focusing on adult and elder health, child health and oral care. Thisarticle describes the activities carried out along 2007. In the light of an educational outlook, group dynamics,games, lectures and act-outs were performed with hypertensive patients and children’s mothers on oral care.Activities and albums categorized by topics were developed in order to orientate chronic disease care, itstreatment and prevention of complications. At school, health monitoring and health promotion activities weredeveloped in which problems such as verminosis and vaccine delay were detected; in this stage, parents andteachers’ opinions were collected in order to contribute to the elaboration of a municipal protocol on childhealth care. Thus, the project tries to add the recognition of family needs in order to modify health practicedelivered by the services and foster family autonomy on health promotion, considering indispensable toreassure the strengthening potential, at local level, as a resistance setting for the deleterious processes whichstem from cultural and economical subordination.