Educação e saúde nos 15 anos de EDUCON

Abstract

Although Education and Health, Education in Health and Health Education are important phrases in the Health field, there is no consensus on their usage, since they have been interchangeably employed by authors in both Education and Health fields. However, such terms have already been defined by the Brazilian Ministry of Health (HM) in its Knowledge Management Plan. This study is aimed at analyzing how the concepts proposed by the HM have been employed by authors and researchers in the articles published in the International Colloquium of Education e Contemporaneity – EDUCON/Strand: Education and Health. Paper abstracts published in EDUCON Annals from 2015 to 2020 were analyzed. We investigated whether or not the authors employed the terms proposed by the HM and classified the abstracts according to the consensual understanding, if the authors referred to Education and/in Health, Health Education or other terms, as defined by the HM. No consensus has been found either on the concepts employed in the abstracts under study or on the classification undertaken herein. A deeper understanding of the abovementioned concepts is urged as a contribution towards an adoption of terms that may cover all the complexity of the matter.