Educação a distância como recurso para capacitação de Agentes Comunitários de Saúde para intervenções preventivas relacionadas ao álcool e outras drogas / Long-distance learning as a resource for capacity of Community Health Agents on preventive interventions related to alcohol and other drugs / Educación a distancia como recurso para la capacitación de Agentes Comunitarios de Salud sobre intervenciones preventivas relacionadas con el alcohol y otras drogas
The Community Health Workers are one of the strategic agents in the work of Primary Care, because they live more directly with health issues in the territory, considering that the problems related to the use of alcohol and other drugs require investment focused on the qualification of health professional. Therefore, this article aimed to report the experience of the Capacity Course of Community Health Agents towards preventive actions from alcohol and other drugs, conducted in the modality of self-instructional distance learning, with tutorial accompaniment. The use of technological tools, besides the articulation with the service network and tutorial accompaniment, proved to be a powerful resource for the development of permanent education in service, in which tutoring was a differential in the enrollment and interest of these professionals in the course, in a way that allows the acquisition of concepts and health strategies to better answer the users needs, according to the prerogatives of the Unified Health System and the psychosocial care model.