Integration research, education and health services: background, strategies and initiatives

Abstract

This article aims to identify and analyze national and international experiences of integration in teaching, research and health services. From the experience in Municipal System of Health - School of Fortaleza, which integrates teaching, survey and assistance, interested us to know other experiences that take for granted such integration. In this sense, through a review of scientific literature, in bibliographic databases online, associated with a documentary research experiments that showed the same integration, we identified information indicating the existence of links between education, research and services. We selected eight experiments on the American continent, one in Canada, one in Cuba, two in Latin America and four in Brazil, which are presented in this article. Integrating teaching and research, using the face of the health system of care as an educational resource, it is clear as a unifying purpose in several countries of the Americas. Analyzing the 08 (eight) experiments presented, it is observed that in 06 (six) of them the integrate teaching, research and services already appears as a strategy for training and continuing education. However, the rapprochement between the functions of teaching, research and health services remains a battleground of convergence and divergence, therefore, as a space for conflict between different interests, making effective slowly. Thus, new investments must be made to uncover the dynamics and processes in construction to facilitate and foster the integration of teaching, research and health care, which requires inter practices, interagency and intersectoral.