Author:

• Jose Roque Junges - Junges, J.R. - São Leopoldo, RS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) - <roquejunges@hotmail.com>

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Abstract:
The “Health of the Family” Strategy has been created to surpass the traditional assistance model of health. It claims the integration of subjective and social dimensions of users, overcoming the reduction of the health/disease process to pure technical-scientific limits. The objective of this article is to understand how the health professionals deal with popular knowledge of the Health of Family Strategy user’s. The methodology is explanatory with a qualitative approach, using as a technique for the collection of data the focal group, and, content analysis, for the interpretation of the results. The sample is formed by integrants of the seven teams of the Health of Family Strategy of the municipality of Campo Bom - RS, chosen according to criteria of competences, totaling twelve members. The results present divergences between professionals about accepting or accepting not popular knowledge. Many do not consider the subjectivity and the social representations of popular culture in the health/disease process. Others only tolerate this knowledge as a strategy to make the users accept the proposed therapy. However a minority values this knowledge as complementary to the scientific universe, in the construction of integrality.
Key-Works: Family Health; Professionals; Culture; Health; Knowledge

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