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MACHADO, Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa et al. The health school programme: a health promotion strategy in primary care in Brazil. J. Hum. Growth Dev. [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.3, pp. 307-312. ISSN 0104-1282.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.96709.

INTRODUCTION: the Health School Programme (HSP) should be understood as a permanent development process. In this context, the actions of a policy aimed at children and adolescentsare paramount in the HSP OBJECTIVE: to identify and describe the actions developed by the Family Health Group in the HSP, from the National Programme for ImprovingAccess and Quality of Primary Care (PIPCAQ METHODS: this cross-sectional research used secondary data collected fromthe 17,202 groups who joined PIPCAQ in 2012 RESULTS: all regions showed significant results concerning the execution of school activities. the Northern region was the one that performed most school actions (80.5%), followed by the Northeast, Midwest, South and Southeast, respectively. However, some items, such as professional training in education and health work need to be streng the ned CONCLUSION: HSP in Brazil has mobilised significant actions, even though it has not happened in homogeneously in all Brazilian regions

Palavras-chave : health evaluation; health school programme; primary health care.

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