Inter-professional relationships in the Family Health Strategy: perception of health management

Abstract

Objectives: to analyze the teamwork in the Family Health Strategy from the perspective of professionals from the Primary Care Department and the municipal manager/secretary of health of a Municipal Health Secretariat. Methods: an exploratory/qualitative study. All professionals of the Department and municipal manager/municipal health secretary/interior of Minas Gerais participated. Data collection was through semi-structured interviews/May to November/2019. Data analysis: Content analysis/thematic mode and work process theoretical referential. Results: three categories emerged: Inter-professional relations permeated by non-material instruments of work; Professional training, experience, and profile influence teamwork; and Proposals for the realization of teamwork in the Family Health Strategy. Results revealed assumptions for teamwork in the referred Strategy, facilitators/difficulties/strategies for its realization, according to the professionals. Final Considerations: collaboration/communication/proactivity to facilitate teamwork. Need for approximation between municipal management and Family Health Strategy to achieve teamwork.