Definition of professional performance for the promotion of breastfeeding from Medical Education

Definición del desempeño profesional para la promoción de la lactancia materna desde la Educación Médica

Abstract

The cuban social project imposes the formation of flexible, responsible, participatory human resources, with a deep humanistic approach, which from their professional performance provides solutions to the problems of practice with quality, equality and social commitment, for which this article based on the systematization of various researchers from different areas of knowledge, was outlined as an objective to offer an operational definition of professional performance from and for primary health care, a scenario where the promotion of breastfeeding is carried out. Theoretical methods such as historical, documentary analysis and systematization were used. The result is a tribute to the definition of professional performance contextualized at the primary health level; concluding as support for future research.