Community interventions in nursing: intersectoriality, entrepreneurship training and regional health development

Abstract

Making use of the concept of regional development beside of his economic character but including quality of life of the population and the citizen participation, the health is understood has decisive in this process. In this papper it is intended analyze the contributions of the community interventions with objective in education for health, making by academics of nursing from higher education institution (HEI), sited in Paranhana’s Valley/RS. This qualitative and exploratory study, has been supported in a documental research to interventions reports from HEI, whose data was analyzed of interpretative way. In the face of the collected data, was perceived that elementary, middle and high school institutions did not participated of the actions, although there is a governmental program that close relation between education and health. This is a important point to be worked in future actions, because these institutions have potential to be inserted and to mobilize the community. It could be concluded that community actions in health have a important potential to mobilize many actors and sectors, to contribute to the cooperatively, besides to offer to academics a formation more near of regional reality.