A Review of the Literature on Virtual Learning Environments for Professionals in Primary Health Care

Abstract

Research in Primary Health Care (PHC) has advanced in recent years, mainly with preventive and curative strategies or actions in family and community orientation through multi-professional teams. In health systems that value equity, integrality and social participation, these professionals perform activities based on reliable, structured and current data. Therefore, the use of permanent education together with distance education is the key to training these professionals, especially with virtual learning environments. However, few papers discuss, present and catalog the results already obtained in the community. Thus, the objective was to locate in the literature the aspects of virtual learning environments in teams focused on primary health care. Thus, a search for articles in English was made in the databases PubMed Central®, IEEE Xplore®, CAPES Periodical®, and Elsevier’s Scopus®. The results of the analyses provided an overview of Virtual Learning Environments. In the meantime, it has been found that many are unavailable or have access restrictions, which makes it impossible to reuse them.