Abstract:

Brazil is living, nowadays, a transitional process in society stages of life and habitational location
(predominance of urban areas). This leads to people agglomerating in big urban regions like
metropolis and metropolitan areas. Therefore, public authorities has to create actions that fill the
quiescent demands and that are able to promote biopsychosocial welfare to citizens, especially the
most vulnerable, like adolescents. Then, integrated actions are necessary to be launched and
experienced in the farthest places, aiming to improve society and adolescents life quality. The
pattern changes in diseases occurrence are constantly imposing new challenges and goals to
managers in health and other areas (that affects those patterns) of the government. The financial
aspect of the actions is one of the most challenging one. Chronic diseases are expensive to SUS
(Sistema nico de Sade). To society, the number of premature deaths and incapacities make
fighting new epidemics caused by NTCD (Non-Transmissible Chronic Diseases) demand significant
investments in research, vigilance, prevention and health lifestyle promotion. Therefore, SUS
launched actions aiming to fight these new..

sexuality and health, demanding more investment in educational actions related with this group.

Conclusion:

These actions proved to be relevant to adolescents by letting specialists to build knowledge about
questions less debated at school environment. This action is authentic teamwork, resulting in growth
and improvement for everyone involved.

The health promotion through the program Adolescente Cidado in Serra (ES).

Introduction

Among the stages of life, adolescence is the one with major biopsychosocial changes and exposure
to high behavioral risk factor, with short- and long-term health effects. Educational actions focusing
adolescents are important to promote health and citizenship. Papo Legal, one of the educational
actions, addresses issues related to this part of society in a playful way, allowing dialogues about
changes in puberty, STD and early pregnancy prevention and human rights.

Goals:

Develop educational health activities for adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14 at schools
located in the city of Serra (ES), especially on the most vulnerable neighborhoods.

Methodology:

Papo Legal is developed with adolescents that are formal students at schools of the municipal
network, especially 6th and 9th grade of elementary school that lives in neighborhoods with high
social vulnerability index in the city of Serra (Espritio Santo, Brasil). The action is conducted through
dialogue and dynamics, in a playful way, seeking the interactions of adolescents. One of the
dynamics is a gymkhana, which students ask questions writing them down without identifying
themselves and then the healthcare professionals answer the questions. At the end, there a
distribution of a health booklet from the Ministry of Health. The PAC team rounded up the students
questions in a portfolio that allowed a reflection on the issues they had raised.

Results:

The program included 2932 adolescents from 15 schools and 12 different neighborhoods from
March 2015 to March 2016. There was a great interaction and participation from adolescents and
the pedagogical team. Adolescents teachers, regarding the importance of the actions, stated the
following points: Open and frank dialogue that arouse students interests, making knowledge easier
and better assimilated; Will certainly have a big impact on their character and their lives ; Is a
different way to address the issues than schools everyday. The records of adolescents showed the
ignorance and many myths about sexuality and health, then demanding greater investment in the
adolescent group health-related education, especially educational actions like this one.