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Volume 8 Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education Community Nursing 2018
November 19-21, 2018
November 19-21, 2018 Cape Town, South Africa
International Conference on
Community Nursing and Public Health
Helena José et al., J Community Med Health Educ 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C6-047
Education in nursing and community intervention
Helena José, Marta Assunção and Susana Pinto
Multiperfil Polytechnic University, Angola
Statement of the Problem: Angola has a very young population, like the majority of developing countries, constituting a
challenge for the country's progress. There are asymmetries in communities due to inequality of opportunities throughout the
territory, which causes internal migratory movements to urban centers and overhead in available public services. The Angolan
government has defined a set of priorities oriented towards the promotion of participatory and sustainable human development.
Thus they recognized the need to strengthen support for education and research institutions, for the evaluation of the quality of
professional performance monitoring and health teams’ evaluation. The purpose of this study is to report the implementation
and results of community intervention projects used as a strategy for teaching and developing people and communities in the training
of community health nursing specialists at the Centro de Formação de Saúde Multiperfil, Luanda, Angola.
Methodology &Theoretical Orientation: Report of the experience of the use of community intervention projects in nursing,
in Angola. All projects were developed according to the methodological design of health planning of Imperatori and Giraldes
and the theoretical model of health promotion of Nola Pender.
Findings: Community intervention projects have contributed to the health promotion, citizenship and the empowerment
of individuals and communities. Furthermore students of community health nursing specialty consider the person as being
responsible for his own life and health project, putting at their disposal a whole set of knowledge and mastery. In its exercise
of health promotion, favored people and communities gain control over their own health, and therefore contributing to their
development and empowerment.
Conclusion & Significance: The students' intervention was reflected in an active citizenship of the population through
counselling and information, risk prevention, early identification of the disease and reduction of complications. Community
nursing intervention is undoubtedly important to develop citizens more aware of the power of their active participation.
Biography
Helena José has completed her PhD in Nursing by the University of Lisbon in 2009. She is from the Multiperfil Polytechnic University, Luanda. She has published
59 articles in specialized magazines and 25 papers in events proceedings, has 3 book chapters and 5 books published. She has directed 25 master's theses in
Social Sciences and Health Sciences. She works in Medical Sciences with emphasis on Communication Sciences.