A produção acadêmica na área de educação em saúde: uma revisão em periódicos Qualis A1

Abstract

This work is a State-of-the-Art research, which aimed to analyze the academic production about Health Teaching in Science Education journals with higher rating in Sucupira platform during the last decade (2010-2019). It was found two journals in the Qualis A1 layer, in which were it was made a search for articles in the Health Education subject. Within the stablished criteria, it was found and analyzed 29 articles. Through analyzes it was verified the most common research methodology as case study, confirming the growth of this methodology in educational research. The predominant themes in the researches were “didactic” and “qualification for professionals who work with Health Education”, showing up a concern about the future professionals’ qualification and alternatives for health teaching. The targetaudience found in the papers were mainly students, teachers and professors from different education levels, pointing out the researches’ focus in the formal education. The biggest part of the authors (80%) are graduate in Health Sciences and Biological Sciences area, linked to research or higher education institutions, however, none of them declared to be linked to basic education institutions or high schools. Most of the researches were developed in Brazil’s Southeastern region and are linked to this region’s research and teaching institutions. Meanwhile, Brazil’s Northern region had no papers related, despite of the more urgent needs in health care and education. From the higher education institutes related in the articles, 91% are public institutions, highlighting the importance of these institutions in Brazilian research. The data related to the publications’ years do not reveal any growing tendencies in the amount of publications. This research emphasizes that Health Education is an area full of work possibilities and with many demands to be dealt with, besides being an important tool for social transformation. It is expected to create a more complete view of the Health Education situation in Brazil from the expansion of the research corpus in future stages of the research.