Nutrition education and micronutrients supplementation: an analysis of the School Health Program and NUTRISUS Program about the anemia deficiencies combat

Abstract

The school environment constitutes in a space to the development of activities of prevention and promotion of health and through the prism of social grouping can be downright developed actions to encourage healthy eating, knowledge of anthropological paradigms, and there is still the possibility of supplementation of micronutrient to prevent physiological disorders caused by nutritional needs. This present study aimed to understand the perception of the team of nurses of the Family Health linked to the School Health Program, about the importance of micronutrient supplementation in the diet of Child Education of Municipal Centers participating in the NutriSUS Program as a form of preventing and combat the anemia deficiencies, among them the iron deficiency anemia, in the county of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais. For the contract, it was used a descriptive and exploratory research with qualitative approach and of Focus Group technique, since that the one, through group sessions facilitates the expression of characteristics required in the object of study. Data were obtained and observed from Content Analysis. It can be seen weaknesses in the process of planning and performance of the program, which may have interfered directly in the outcome of the prevention of anemia. It was heard reports of difficulties in the training process of education professionals for the implementation of the NutriSUS and of the little acceptance of supplementation for the child, for inherent questions in eating habits and socioeconomic and cultural patterns of those kids.