ABSTRACT
This study aims to use analytical tool, the Critical Event Card (CEC), to potentialize the application of scientific knowledge in health promotion to decision making. A workshop and seven interviews with users of knowledge (management representatives, users, and health professionals) were conducted in order to map these critical events related to health promotion. From the workshop were extracted the events related to health promotion that marked the evolution of the intervention in Nova Aliança; and from the interviews, the pre-established codes on the theory present in the CEC: actants/actors, interests, interactions, technical mediation, actions and consequences, using directed content analysis. Three critical events related to health promotion actions were identified: the arrival of the Community Health Workers Program (Pacs); the first Local Council and the implementation of multidisciplinary and medical residency, which were systematized according to the categories presented. It was observed that the present categories made it possible to understand the intervention and that the CEC is a useful tool that can help decision-makers benefit from the scientific knowledge produced.
KEYWORDS
Family Health Strategy; Health promotion; Health evaluation; Translational medical research