Health care team's reports on educational practices for road traffic victims during hospitalization/rehabilitation in an emergency hospital

Abstract

The paper aims at analyzing the health care team's reports on educational practices to road traffic victims during the period of hospitalization and rehabilitation, trying to reduce traumatic orthopedic sequelae. The study was carried out with 10 professionals from the health care team who work in a public emergency hospital in the city of Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil, in 2006. The semi-structured interview was the technique for collecting data and these were submitted to thematic analysis and then discussed in the light of Health Education and Health Promotion. To the participants, the conception of educational practice converged to a preventive, informational, and normative approach; although the health care team did not accomplish with integrality and humanization the therapeutic support to individuals, they developed a timid educational practice, which demystifies Health Promotion as the focus of primary care. Thus, the reorientation of the health care team's practice, based on an interdisciplinary approach to road traffic victims, can help minimize the incidence of sequelae.