Practice education in the chronicles conditions prevention

• Published in: Extensio: Revista Eletrônica de Extensão Vol. 13; no. 24; pp. 138 - 152
• Main Authors: Bárbara Ferreira dos Santos, Aline Pires Ribeiro Salvador, Livia Muniz Cirino de Carvalho, Carolina Gonçalves Hubner, Natália de Cássia Horta, Sabrina Alves Ramos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 01-12-2016
• Subjects: doença crônica; hábitos alimentares; promoção da saúde; qualidade de vida
• ISSN: 1807-0221
• DOI: 10.5007/1807-0221.2016v13n24p138

This article reports experiences of undergraduates and university teatchers with the community in an extension project developed from March to December of 2015. In this article, the practices of Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Cardiovascular Diseases and Obesity were discussed, with guidelines and demonstrations for the population at school, restaurant and university. The interventions were initiated by talking with the participants about means of prevention, reduction of diseases, healthy recipes and modifications in the habits of life. Practices to combat hypertension and diabetes have addressed ways to minimize diseases through eating and the ones to combat obesity and cardiovascular diseases were performed through dynamics. The practices revealed public interest in changing lifestyles and brought to extensionists practical knowledge, because they were able to put into practice content learned in class, which is one of the objectives of university extension.