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0403/2016 - Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicines in primary health care in Florianópolis / SC: user perception
Utilização de Medicinas Alternativas e Complementares na atenção primária à saúde de Florianópolis/SC: percepção de usuários

Author:

• Amanda Faqueti - Faqueti, Amanda - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Saúde Coletiva - <amandafaqueti@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• CHARLES DALCANALE TESSER - Tesser, C.D. - FLORIANÓPOLIS, SC - UFSC, Saúde Coletiva - <charles.tesser@ufsc.br>

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

This article presents the partial analysis of the results of a study that investigated the users’ perceptions of the institutional use of the Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) in the health centers at Florianópolis. There were conducted semi-structured interviews with users treated with MAC on locations where it was most offered; whose analysis used as theoretical and methodological framework the grounded theory. Most of the use of CAM was proposed by primary care professionals (the biomedical care providers), initially, as an alternative and preferred way instead of the biomedicine, as well as complementary. There was also common preference of the women interviewed for this usage, due to the lower side effects for them attributed to the MAC. They referred an increased dialogue with professionals due to trading on the form of treatments. It emerged the hypothesis that the CAM may be initial alternative in significant part, being the conventional treatment as a backup for later use if required or additional single or in other situations. This allows sketch an expanded flow of the presence of the MAC in primary health care. New research and institutional experiments are needed to investigate this hypothesis, which amplifies the use of CAM in ‘ecology of institutional care‘.

Keywords:

Integrative MedicineComplementary TherapiesPrimary health care

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Faqueti, Amanda, Tesser, C.D.. Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicines in primary health care in Florianópolis / SC: user perception. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Aug). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/use-of-complementary-and-alternative-medicines-in-primary-health-care-in-florianopolis-sc-user-perception/15829?id=15829



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