The health-disease process and the family health strategy: the user's
perspective
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| Authors: | Débora de Souza Santos Elainey de Albuquerque Tenório Mércia Zeviane Brêda Silvana Martins Mishima |
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| Institution: | 2.PhD, Adjunct Professor, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil;3.RN, Prefeitura Municipal de Salvador, Salvador, BA, Brazil;4.PhD, Professor, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil;5.PhD, Full Professor, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: to analyze the meanings Primary Health Care users attribute to their
health-disease process and the services used. METHODS: this qualitative research uses the focus group technique to interview two groups
of users the service monitors. The first is a group of elderly people and the
second of pregnant women. To analyze the meanings, the discourse analysis
technique and the reference framework of health promotion are used. RESULTS: the group of elderly, being mostly female arterial hypertension and diabetes
mellitus patients, visualizes the health-disease process as the evolution of human
existence controlled by divine power, signifying the health service as a blessing
in the control of the disease. The Group of young pregnant women signified health
as the ability for self-care and disease as the disability for that purposes,
considering the Primary Health Care service as responsible for the recovery of
individual and family health. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: the users demonstrated dissatisfaction with bureaucratic and vertical relations
present at the health services. In each group, it was observed that the meanings
for health and disease and meanings of the health service the users elaborated can
be related. |
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| Keywords: | Family Health Strategy Health Promotion Community Health Nursing Nursing |
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