A abordagem da violência na atenção primária à saúde

Abstract

Introduction: Family health teams as a public strategy that articulates the primary health care of the individual, the family and the community should have at the heart of their work the practice of health promotion. Objectives: To verify the perception of the professionals who are part of the family health teams of Ribeirão das Neves regarding violence. Methods: Qualitative approach study. The instrument used to collect information was a semi-structured questionnaire, applied in individual interviews. The open questions were analyzed qualitatively by the hermeneutic-dialectical method. Results: We interviewed 316 professionals, members of the 58 Family Health teams, present at the time of the interview. The material was treated by means of categorization. Conclusions: The development of policies and actions to prevent violence, aimed at reducing their impact on people’s lives, should be intrinsic in Primary Care teams. But in practice, this is not yet a reality. The answers found demonstrate that the incorporation of violence in the health teams of Ribeirão das Neves municipality is still a great challenge.