Alex Wander Nenartavis (Brazil)
UNIVERSIDADE DO OESTE PAULISTA UNOESTE Public HealthAuthor Of 2 Presentations
PREVENTION OF GYNECOLOGICAL CANCERS AND HEALTH EDUCATION CARRIED OUT BY MEDICAL STUDENTS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF BRAZIL: AN EXPERIENCE REPORT
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The uterine cervix cancer is the third most common cancer in women. The most used test for it's screening is the Pap Smear Test. Breast cancer is the most prevalent among women. The brest self-examinatiom is a self-awareness action, which is not recommended as an early detection method. The purpose of this study was to report the experience of undergraduate medical students at a private university in the countryside of Brazil, putting into practice the National Policy for Integral Attention to Women's Health (PNAISM).
To develop this activity, the students performed the supervised cytopathological examination of the cervix, explained to the patients the possible complications of the test, and taught them how to perform de breast self-examination, in a basic health unit in Presidente Prudente, SP.
Nine women, between 25 and 40 years old, were benefited from this action. This activity enabled the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes by the medical students on how to perform the Pap Smear Test, in addition to the health education for the patients.
The promotion of prevention and health education activitys like this has an epedimiological impact, by reducing the incidence, morbidity and mortality indicators of gynecological cancers, apart from saving financial resources of the Unified Health System (SUS). Thus, the students had the opportunity to promote affective, social and economical health. The future of medicine lies on the hands of the students, therefore they must know epidemiology, so they can direct the future of Unified Health System's users, who are the great majority of brazilians.
MEDICAL STUDENTS PERFORM HEALTH EDUCATION ACTION FOR THE ELDERLY AT SÃO RAFAEL NURSING HOME, IN PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE
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The medicine students from UNIVERSIDADE DO OESTE PAULISTA (UNOESTE) made a work of health education, with Elderly people who lives in São Rafael nursing home, to attend the health necessities of this population institutionalized, what is a growing reality in Brazil since the Brazilian population is getting old. This new reality, confirms the urgency to get public politics that offer a bigger quality of life to the third and fourth age people and also that promotion of healthy aging.
The work has the objective of creating healthy environments for elderly people institutionalized promoting a moment of joy at the same time it promoted a work of health education.
The activity was coordinated by a teacher of UNOESTE who conducted the group of medical academics from the terms 1st to 5th, which had the opportunity to do a conversation wheel with the elderly present. Oral and body hygiene were the addressed themes along with some advices about feed and the importance of the social interaction inside the house. The medic students could listen to some suggestions and compliments from the elderly related to the care received. After the end of the conversation wheel, there was a confraternization.
The students had the opportunity to know the institution and some activities developed there by the multi-professional team that works there. The work was rated as of great importance by the contacted elderly, since it provided improvements in the quality of life and in the dignity of the citizens who participated in the conversation wheels and the games developed by the students.