Educação Sanitária e em Saúde: a trajetória profissional de Rosa Pavone Pimont

Abstract

Sanitary Education, which later began to be called Health Education, is an important area of public health. Organized by the government, we can say that the first recognized professionals in the area were health educators. The act of educating children was a role delegated to women, both domestically and professionally. Thus, the field of health education also became a field, initially, exclusive to women. In an attempt to rescue the history of the professional work of women, especially health educators, this work aims to collaborate with the historiography of health and health education by presenting data and analyzes of the professional career of one of these educators, Rosa Pavone Pimont, who worked at the Butantan Institute intermittently from 1943 until his death in 1981. A qualitative analysis was made from documentary research in primary and secondary sources. It is a work that falls within the area of social history that is based on the documentary and bibliographic analysis of the works carried out by Pimont and presented at events or published in academic or science dissemination magazines. At the end, Pimont's contributions to health and health education are discussed, like her work to stablish an education field in Instituto Butantan.