Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Thaís Bueno Machado de  and  PRESOTO, Lúcia Helena. Effectiveness of a health promotion in pre-school infants program in the city of Anápolis, Goiás State. Ciênc. saúde coletiva [online]. 2009, vol.14, n.5, pp. 1891-1902. ISSN 1413-8123.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-81232009000500031.

This work aimed to analyze the assistance given by a health promotion in pre-school infants program in the city of Anápolis, Goiás State, as well as the forms of participation of the ones involved. Thus, statistical attendance dates were collected, as well as the realization of interviews with the respective parents and/or responsible for the infants, and also the ones, showing a sample of 119 and 19 people, respectively. Analyzing the collected data, it can be concluded that the effectiveness of the program, considering the perceptions of the interviewed ones, is showed as satisfactory on its global aspect.

Keywords : Health promotion; Education in health; Program; Infant.