PROMOTION AND PREVENTION IN SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCE

Abstract

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: This work is part of the PROICO 10-04/20 Promotion and Prevention in Speech and Hearing Science in Health Centers in the Province of San Luis. The intention is to provide useful information aimed at strengthening and improving promotion and prevention actions in health centers, as Academic, Extension, and Research policies.

Identify the promotion and prevention procedures carried out by speech and hearing professionals in public and private healthcare institutions, in different areas of performance.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The population will consist of selected public and private health centers.

Data Collection Instrument: Survey. The indirect observational method is used through a survey applied to speech and hearing professionals working in health centers.

The study is exploratory and descriptive, aiming to identify the procedures carried out by speech and hearing professionals in promotion and prevention actions in Public and Private Health Centers.

The deepening of the theoretical corpus of speech and hearing science, the critical vision towards different paradigms and theoretical-epistemological conceptions within the discipline, developed in previous research projects, represent the basis on which the present work is implemented in provincial socio-cultural contexts.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The data collected in this first stage provide provisional results regarding the impossibility of carrying out the study in some of the selected centers, due to the lack of a speech and hearing professional in the health team. In other institutions, the willingness and eventual training to implement speech and hearing promotion and prevention actions are evident.