Popular Education and the Health of Rural, Forest and Water Populations

This paper is an exercise in systematising a training experience that built strategies within the Working Class in the Countryside and in the City to transform the health conditions of populations living in the countryside, in the forest and on the water. Strategies that crossed the spaces of Social Control in the Unified Health System (SUS), during the 15th National Health Conference, the training spaces of the Rural Workers' Union Movement (MSTTR) and the interface for the construction of a comprehensive public health policy for rural, forest and water populations, considering their specificities, needs and the historical conditions of inequality experienced by these peoples. This exercise is incomplete and inconclusive, but of fundamental importance for those involved in the experience, who, while systematising and evaluating the process, relive the experience and deepen their analysis of what they have lived through. From this perspective, systematisation reveals its fundamental importance in telling the story of what has been lived and transforming those who participate in the process.