Narratives in socio-environmental health: potentialities in health training

Abstract

This paper discusses the potentiality of using narratives and field diaries for and in health education in the module ‘Encounters and Production of  Narratives’ of the Work in Health Axis, which is part of  the curriculum of Health Courses of the Health and  Society Institute of the Baixada Santista Campus of  the Federal University of São Paulo. Discourse analysis was used as a tool for analyzing field diaries and  narratives from 2017 and 2019. Gradual changes  promoted by narrative encounters linked to the social-environmental health content introduced in the module can be seen in the statements. The discourse in the diaries and narrative is permeated with  polysemic gaps that give new meanings to the  learning. Thus, a shift from the familiar and  reproduction of the hegemonic become evident,  adopting a perspective that advocates for the  guarantee of rights, including the right to health, and  expresses an expanded understanding of the health  and disease process and its relationship to the socio- environmental issue.