title: [Health education in pregnancy and postpartum: meanings attributed by puerperal women].
abstract: Descriptive study, qualitative, that aimed to capture the content of social representations of puerperal women on health education in pregnancy and postpartum in primary health care. Users were 31 Family Health Centers in Fortaleza, Ceará, over 18 years in the postpartum period, with at least six visits to prenatal and one postpartum consultation. It was held a lexical analysis of data from semi-structured interviews with the software ALCESTE. The representations of puerperal women on health education are linked to institutional educational practices, with emphasis on lectures, family and school education, and community education. It predominate the traditional pedagogy, with the transmission of information, punctual and widespread. It is necessary to change the pedagogical logic, expanding educational groups with knowledge sharing.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pos-Graduacao Cuidados Clinicos em Enfermagem e Saude, Centro de Ciencias da Saude, Universidade Estadual do Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Eryjosy Marculino
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Guerreiro
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pos-Graduacao Cuidados Clinicos em Enfermagem e Saude, Centro de Ciencias da Saude, Universidade Estadual do Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Dafne Paiva
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ana Beatriz Azevedo
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Queiroz
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Márcia de Assunção
authors.initials: Mde A
authors.lastname: Ferreira
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D011181:Postnatal Care; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care; D055815:Young Adult