Conceito e prática da integralidade na Atenção Básica: a percepção das enfermeiras

Abstract

The objective of this study is to debate on the nurses' discourse on the concept of health comprehensiveness and how to implement it in primary health care practice. Considering that comprehensiveness is one of the pillars of the Brazilian public health system (SUS) and taking nursing work force as a considerable commission of people to work for the construction of the SUS, the authors considered important to identify the conceptual bases and practices that guide nurses' work towards in the construction of health comprehensiveness. In this qualitative, exploratory study interviews were performed with 10 nurses working in primary health care centers in three cities in the interior state of São Paulo. Data collection was performed through semi-structured interviews and analyzed according to the collective subject discourse technique. Results showed that the nurses' conceptions on comprehensiveness are directly relates with providing care, and that these professionals put comprehensiveness into practice through their everyday work.

Criança com varicela: conhecimento e práticas de profissionais da educação infantil e da saúde

“…Ademais, essas atividades permitem ao profissional da enfermagem identificar condições sociais e afetivas da população infantil e suas respectivas famílias, além das condições de cuidado e estimulação das crianças (FRACOLLI et al, 2011). Igualmente, garantem adequada articulação entre ações preventivas e assistenciais, capacitando a equipe de saúde para atuação em CEI na busca de melhorar não apenas a qualidade de vida da população infantil, mas também dos profissionais e da comunidade adstrita em sua área de abrangência.…”

Men's health needs in primary care: user embracement and forming links with users as strengtheners of comprehensive health care

“…This is because comprehensiveness is defined as a principle of the Unified Health System (SUS), which takes into account the service user's biological, cultural and social dimensions, and guides health policies and actions which are able to meet the requirements and needs through accessing the network of services 4 .…”

Integralidade na perspectiva de enfermeiros da Estratégia Saúde da Família

“…This strategy contrasts with the SUS proposal that guarantees integrated care to the user through treatment structured as the basis of a health promotion program 5 . The ESF has been structured to fulfill its primary purpose of reorganizing a new model of health care based on integrality, achieved through health promotion policies, based on the social determination of the health-disease process to understand and govern its proposals of action 1 .…”