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Schools and Health Centers: possible and necessary dialogues for the promotion of sexual and reproductive health of adolescents

ABSTRACT

To describe the elaboration of an educational strategy that has the potential to reconstruct a space for dialogue among adolescents, health professionals and educators. The study was conducted in four public schools in the city of Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil. Participants were 67 students enrolled in the 8th year of elementary school, 4 teachers and 6 health professionals of Health Centers close to the schools. Firstly, the students answered a semi-structured questionnaire and then they took part in psychosocial workshops. The study draws attention to the potentiality of educational strategies based on dialogue, on the bond, on listening to and the reception. Therefore, teenagers will be able to find conversational spaces that allow the construction of knowledge about sexual, emotional and reproductive health that can ensure they may have a more safely, responsibly and consciously sexuality.

KEYWORDS:
Adolescent; Sexuality; Intersetorial Action; Health Education

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