Os signos da integralidade no cotidiano de uma residência em saúde da família

Abstract

This dissertation aims at analysing and understanding the meanings and significance attributed to the principle of comprehensiveness in health, by residents and preceptors of medical residence in Family Health, in the city of Juiz de Fora, MG. This study was carried out within the scope of the Family Health Program FHP not only for being an official program of the Ministry for Health but also for being a strategy for restructuring the health care model, which is fully implemented in Brazil, in a typical situation of education in service. The dissertation starts by the presentation of both the conceptual-theoretical bases underlying the research and the principles for the understanding of comprehensiveness. We next present a review of the socio-historical development of the FHP and its changing into a strategy for the implementation of Primary Care in our country, as well as its repercussions for the formation in health in Brazil. As the main part of the study we analysed the reports of residents and preceptors in order to identify the presence (or not) of the signs of comprehensiveness and its relations to professional formation. Such analysis was followed by a survey of the factors which restrain and contribute to the practice of comprehensiveness. We finally focused on the importance of studying the several experiences of teaching and learning in the field of the FHP which take place throughout the country, with the purpose of making progress towards the implementation of the Sistema Unico de Saúde, engaging more and more professionals in the practices pointing to comprehensiveness.