Integrative and Complementary Practices as a Healthgenic Approach

Abstract

This essay presents a brief criticalreflective analysis of the implementation process of Integrative and Complementary Practices -PIC in the unified health system -SUS. The text comprises an analytical, descriptive, critical-reflective and concise review of the literature, presenting PIC as a global approach to salutogenesis, which serves as an orientation for people to be empowered in the continuous search for resources to face the challenges diaries of life and thus promote well-being and health.

Critical Thinking in Integrative and Complementary Practices

“…As one of these scenarios, health care systems have been influenced by the power and privilege (Holm et al, 2017), of dominant interest groups such as biomedicine (Quadagno, 2004;Patel et al, 2021). Therefore, it becomes essential that Pics reflect on their search for a niche within the SUS (da Silva, 2023). As discussed by the author, it is necessary to understand that their performance must be conscious in the salutogenic, holistic and vitalist model of well-being and health, in a complementary way to the biomedical model and its professions, which are focused on the pathogenic, mechanistic and hospitalcentered paradigm of the disease.…”

“…It is essential that the Pics understand the need to reformulate their thoughts to the higher order or explicitly reflective Elder, 2008) and a reorientation in the development and application of a theory of knowledge based on the salutogenic paradigm, strengthening themselves in a niche of action of creating well-being and health (da Silva, 2023).…”