Paulo Freire and Edgar Morin in post-graduation: profile and perceptions of effects from a post-graduate program in Health Promotion

ABSTRACT This study discusses the process of training health professionals, facing the demands that come from society with human resources capable of seeking healthy and sustainable answers. The objective of this study was to analyze the profile and skills acquired in Health Promotion (HP) and insertion in the labor market of graduates of a postgraduate program in PS that bases their methodology on Paulo Freire and Edgar Morin. It is an exploratory field research of the mixed type. The sample totaled 54 participants, graduates from 2012 to 2017, representing 50.5% of the population of the period. The HP training is benefited by the reflexive critical approach adopted by the program and based on Paulo Freire and Edgar Morin, committed to reality by extracting the essence of the practice and allowing the transformation of reality. It is noteworthy that part of these graduates are acting in teaching and thus feeding the teaching process in the perspective of HP.