Listening to stories to build continuing education strategies in mother and child health

Abstract

Maternal and child health constitutes a subsector of public management that is responsible for social and human development indicators such as fertility rates, infant mortality and maternal mortality. In this article, we discuss the first results of a qualitative research conducted with health workers working at the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), in primary and tertiary care settings in  Alagoas State. We invited these subjects to be partners in identifying challenges and potentialities that mark their professional daily lives to build continuing health education strategies that enable a rapprochement between scientific dissemination and the exercise of an interprofessional and humanized practice in maternal and child health.. We reflect here on two worring aspects that emerged in the stories : permanent education focused on continuing education and the challenges in facing day to day racism.. Data analyses are guided to construct an experimental strategy that contributes to developing successful practices in the care of those who experience the pregnancy-puerperal cycle in our territory.