Contribuições do sanitarista ao Núcleo de Apoio à Saúde da Família

Abstract

Since the implementation of the Family Health Support Center (NASF) several actions have been developed in order to achieve comprehensive care and interdisciplinarity of actions in resolving the clinical problems and sanitary facilities, articulated with the care network. In this sense, a search was carried out bibliographic about the work of the NASF in Brazil in order to identify the role of the health worker in this support team, and, in addition, identify the challenges and potential for insertion of this professional. This core must provide the creation of spaces that constitute a care network, with case discussion, meetings, attendance and planning of actions in conjunction with the Strategy of Family Health (ESF) in order to build a collective learning process with definitions of shared behaviors. The developed actions seek to improve the quality of the service provided and not just meeting a demand for care in its numerical aspect. One of the difficulties identified in the work process is professional training, as the SUS lacks professionals prepared for a integral approach. The performance of the sanitarist is in line with the proposal of the SUS, as it looks at individual and collective contexts, understanding the process of health-disease beyond the biological body and developing actions from the health diagnosis of the territory. One of the challenges for the inclusion of the sanitarist would be deal with the fragmented work logic that still exists and that reflects on care provided to the population. Its performance can strengthen technical-pedagogical actions, planning actions, screening strategies, diagnosis, preventive activities, producing knowledge related to the health of the population.