Pereira, Izete Soares da Silva DantasSilva, Rita Araújo de Aquino2014-12-172010-05-052014-12-172005-10-17SILVA, Rita Araújo de Aquino. O programa de saúde da família e os princípios básicos do Sistema Único de Saúde na realidade de Santana do Matos RN. 2005. 146 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Serviço Social, Formação Profissional, Trabalho e Proteção Social; Serviço Social, Cultura e Relaçõe) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2005.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/17881This work shows the professional staff of the Family Health Program (PSF) in Santana do Matos City perceive the Unified Health System (SUS). Their discourse and recognition of the advances of SUS, as well as their participation on the implementation of the system, are analyzed. The Brazilian Ministry of Health instituted it in 1994 in order to rebuild the health politics on a new basis, substituting the traditional model. The city-centered implementation of SUS was instituted on May 27, 1992 by the act nº 631/92 and today it experiences a Full Management of Basic Attention. In July 2001 the PSF program was started in the city with 5 teams: 2 in the urban zone and 3 in the rural one. The methodology was developed with the combination of qualitative and quantitative research with the employment of a questionnaire with both open and closed inquiries to 31 members of the program. The study appointed that, no matter how positive and enlarged be the staff s concept of health and SUS, they dont s have on understanding of the total chain of the system on its integrality, hierarchy and regionality what hinders the system performance close to the users. The PSF incorporates and reaffirms the basic principles of the SUS; however, on its everyday employment it has not yet abandoned totally the curative model, which is reinforced by the hospital-centered and physiscian-centerend cultureapplication/pdfAcesso AbertoPolítica de SaúdePrograma Saúde da FamíliaDescentralizaçãoHealth politics, Family Health ProgramDescentralizationmasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL