Minicurso sobre a abordagem de febre amarela e chikungunya na APS : avaliações dos alunos participantes

Abstract

Introduction: The increased incidence of dengue fever, chikungunya, zika and more recently yellow fever is a great concern in Brazil. The Primary Health Care (PHC) is a part of Unified Health System – SUS, where part of strategies to fight these diseases are executed. Methods and Objective: The present quantitative study, cross – sectional and descriptive aims to evaluate a short course offered through web - lectures, which had as its theme the current approach of yellow fever and chikungunya in the context of PHC. Results: The results indicate, in general, a positive balance regarding the use of online courses as an instrument for qualification of primary health care professionals. However, there was a difficulty for students to continue to participate on a regular basis in all web-lectures. Conclusion: The result of this study contributes to understand the permanent education like instrument essential in the context of primary care and the methodologies of distance learning can be characterized by as an effective strategy for low cost professional qualification and also an opportunity to promote more studies that evaluate the effectiveness of these instruments in the context of permanent education of health.