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This paper aimed to analyze actions developed to health promotion and disease prevention in the uterine cervical neoplasm control. It was a documentary, exploratory and qualitative research. Experience reports published in Practice Community were collected to be analyzed. They were analyzed by content analysis with three pedagogical perspectives: pedagogy of transmission, behaviorist pedagogy, and problematizing critical pedagogy. 15 experience reports were selected. These experiences were developed predominantly by the female public, about the preventive examination Pap, inside health care centers, and punctual actions by campaign model. There were prevailed actions by the pedagogy of transmission that aimed to transmit knowledge about diseases and its treatment and prevention. Secondary, there were actions in a behaviorist perspective that aimed to give some reward to a determinate response. The minority of the actions adopted a problematization perspective that developed dialogical and reflexives activities. These results showed the necessity to strengthen the health promotion and the popular education in health in the healthcare services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Secretary of Health State of Minas Gerais, with the support of the Ministry of Health, have been making extensive effort to universalize the primary health care, given its strategic role in the formation the networks of the health care in the Unique Health System (SUS). Therefore, began to encourage the adoption of the Family Health Teams through of the "Program Structuring Health at Home". Associated with this program, was created the Master Plan of the Primary Health Care (PDAPS), whose goal it's provide an instrument to territorial planning and management of these service, qualifying them to fulfill the role as gateway of the network of the health in the SUS. The aim of this paper is discuss the territorial planning of the primary health care and the networks of the health care the SUS in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The hypothetical premise of the discussion is the existential interdependence between primary health care, networks and the territory. The methodology is based on a theoretical study and descriptive, on one side, and a theorical analysis and critical, of another. Therefore, have a dimension of discovery of the relationship between networks, territory and primary health care, on one side, and a dimension of note about the ways how this is being planned, of another. The results indicate improvements in the construction of networks in Minas Gerais, but there are also theoretical issues and methodological that needs to be addressed, especially on the forms of territorial definition of the services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]