Author(s)

Ana Áurea Alécio de Oliveira Rodrigues, Claudia Ribeiro Santos Lopes, Eliane Santos Souza, Inácio de Sousa Fadigas, Hernane Borges de Barros Pereira

Programa de Difus?o do Conhecimento, DMMDC/UFBA, Salvador, Brazil; Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Programa de Modelagem Computacional, SENAI Cimatec, Salvador, Brazil.
Programa de Difus?o do Conhecimento, DMMDC/UFBA, Salvador, Brazil; Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Jequié, Brazil.
Programa de Difus?o do Conhecimento, DMMDC/UFBA, Salvador, Brazil; Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil; Programa de Difus?o do Conhecimento, DMMDC/UFBA, Salvador, Brazil.

The Education through Work for Family Health Program (PET Saúde, in Portuguese) created by the Ministries of Education and Health is a proposal to integrate service, learning and community. The goal of PET Saúde is to foster the formation of learning groups within the Family Health Strategy scope. While being studied at the city of Feira de Santana, the program was structured with one coordinator and eleven tutorial groups, distributed in 27 family health offices, which constituted a social network where the construction and knowledge diffusion occur. This article proposes the analysis of the information and knowledge flows of this network through the social networks analysis. This study highlights the play of PET Saúde’s coordinator in the processes of organization and articulation as central vertex of the network, and some scholars in the articulation of different tutorial groups. The results show a fragmentation in the PET Saúde network when the coordinator vertex is removed, whereas 5 components are generated where 4 tutorial groups appear isolated.

Social Networks; Education-Service Interaction; Health; Information; Knowledge

Oliveira Rodrigues, A. , Santos Lopes, C. , Souza, E. , Sousa Fadigas, I. and Barros Pereira, H. (2014) Information and Knowledge Flows in the Network of the Education through Work for Family Health Program. Social Networking, 3, 119-126. doi: 10.4236/sn.2014.32015.