Autoavaliação integrativa da gestão do cuidado: sentidos e significados das PICS em Nísia Floresta

Abstract

The sanitary reform of the Public Health in Brazil, that was implemented by1988, points out the integrated health care as one of the most important aspect for the Unified Health System (SUS in Portuguese).The Complementary and Integrative Practices in Health (PICS in Portuguese) that is one of the basis of the politics for this integrated care and was published in Brazil by 2006, includes the expanded clinics as a tool and brings a new proposal about the care in health. Nísia Floresta, a county close to the capital of Rio Grande do Norte state (Natal), is implementing its County Policies of Complementary and Integrative Practices (PMPIC). This study is a qualitative research (research-action type) with an ethno-phenomenological analytical nature and with a social-poetic approach, and has the goal to describe and analyze the implementation process of the PMPIC at Nísia Floresta-RN county, based on the opinions and meanings pointed out by the professionals of the Strategy of the Family Health (researched group, ESF in Portuguese) and how this has influenced the management of care in health. As a methodological strategy for the data collection, it was organized by the author a Human-Poetic Atelier of Integrative Self-Assessment (AHAI in Portuguese). The results of the study point out to an important change at the model of attention used in Nísia Floresta County from the implementation of PMPIC. There were also identified advances at the legal and the protocol aspects related to the care management in the County.The Humanescent Integrative Care, introduced by the team of the Family Health Strategy of the county, strengthened the transdisciplinarity and the integrality, the adoption of new technologies that meet the assumptions of the PMPIC, the expanded clinic and the National Policy of Humanization.