The Family Health Program and nutritional activities in a health district in São Paulo, Brazil

To overcome the guidelines of Family Health Program in São Paulo city, the Health?s local Organization had defined priority areas for the teams? implementation, based on the social exclusion map, the social-economical and epidemiological profile of the health district. In the Vila Maria Health District, teams from this program were implanted in the Parque Novo Mundo region. Because there is no training in the field of food and nutrition actions for these professionals, the work was developed, conducting visits at territory, despite surveys from the epidemiological and social-economical profile and interviews. The training was divided in four classes having different approaches, related with nutritional diagnostic and mains transmissible chronical and scarcity diseases controlled by diet (by the nutrition). Therefore, it was possible to denay the beliefs on wrong behaviors, as well as to show the possibility to the application of this information to the community, for all the teams? professionals.