Multi-professional approach in Health Promotion: from the professional view and the subject of care context

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the multi-professional approach in the professional view and the subject of care contexts of a regular physical activity program. Methodology: Mixed method study, based on RE-AIM (Reach = Efficacy = Adoption = Implementation = Maintenance), carried out between October, 2015 and August, 2016, in the countryside of Bahia, through a semi-structured interview with professionals and adult-elderly people with a chronic non-communicable disease, participants of a regular physical activity program, and review of medical records. Results: They showed the benefits of integrating work to the collective social health approach in people's health, in professional training and in the improvement of people's health, impacting blood pressure indexes, so as to reduce them to levels that promote quality of health and human life. Conclusions: The promotion of quality of life and health of people living with a chronic disease is improved when performed with a multi-professional and interdisciplinary approach, which are necessary elements to the improvement of public policies and health programs that impact public health.