Production of educational health resources in the approach to healthy eating

Abstract

Introduction: The production of educational resources in health care made out in an interdisciplinary way articulates different areas of knowledge and has an impact on an educational action in the search for comprehensive care. Objective: This work aims to report an experience of academics from the medical and nutrition course in an interdisciplinary educational action, with the production of educational resources, held in the second semester of 2019, in a municipal school, Anápolis - GO, with four-year-old children.  Methodology: This is a descriptive study, type of experience report, prepared by students in the health area after a project carried out with school-aged children of 4 years. Results: The action was idealized after analysis regarding chronic diseases in the UBS territory assisted in conjunction with the Family and Community Medicine discipline. Therefore, there was a need to raise awareness about eating with 4-year-old children from a municipal school, as it is an age of discovery and formation of eating habits. Through the partnership between the medical course and the nutrition course, recreational activities were developed, in addition to the recognition of foods and the differentiation of fresh and processed foods, to promote the creation of healthy eating habits and thus avoid and/or minimize possible pathologies in the future.  Conclusions: Under this point of view, it is concluded that Health Education combined with interdisciplinarity is extremely important for learning, having provided a moment of exchange of knowledge, both amog students from diferente courses and teachers, as well as between academics and children.