Alimentação e nutrição nos equipamentos e programas da secretaria de assistência social: um estudo de caso no município de Cuité - PB.

Abstract

In the last years the practice of nutritionist has become essential in the context for public health and education system, and currently with the development of social policies, of poverty overcome and food and nutrition security, this dialogue has approached this professional space of the social assistance. It was recently proposed the first Consensus on Abilities and Nutritionist Skills on the Scope of Public Health (2013) which deals with the nutritionist performance in this area. In this context the course of Nutrition of the university expansion campus of the Federal University of Campina Grande-UFCG, alongside with the Secretary of Social Assistance of the city of Cuité maintains a partnership since 2010 with research projects, extension and curricular internship within all the equipment that make up this office. The general aim of this study is to analyze the insertion of the potential of professional nutritionist in the equipment of the social assistance from the analysis of a case study in the Secretary of Social Assistance in the city of Cuité. This is a qualitative study and exploratory character, which has as target audience managers and technicians responsible for equipment or programs linked to Secretariat of Social Assistance. This study was performed in two stages: the first consisted of a mapping in order to group all existing actions and programs in the city under the Social Assistance, and the second stage consisted of conducting semi-structured interviews and recorded audio. Regarding the nutritionist insertion perspective in the equipment of the Social Assistance, in the Program Management mention was considered insufficient to the related lines for the development of functions and tasks relating to that category, where only two informants remitted the nutritionist insertion related in the Direct Purchase Program and Food Bank. Another part of the discussion highlights on Atenção Alimentar e Nutricional para indivíduos e grupos (Food and Nutritional Counseling for individuals and groups) and features the attention of managers to the nutritionist performance in these devices, and is perceived as a possible perspective, but also restricted in some services as only for the elaboration of menus and weight and height test. The acting potentialities under optical of the 9 managers in the mapping equipment, were associated with the qualification of services, expansion teams, strengthening of the intersectorality and the growth and evolution of the actions and Policy of Social Assistance secretary, opening a new discussion space widening, qualifying and improving the training of academics, allowing the student to acquire skills to act in separate policies and programs that are based on the Food and Nutrition Security.