Um olhar sobre as práticas de cura em Campina Grande: moradores e agentes comunitários em busca de uma racionalidade alternativa em saúde.

Abstract

The health care involves a number of practices including traditional and alternative medicine, which are used in Brazil in combination with the official medicine since colonial time. Even though there is a disqualification of these practices by the scientific medicine, the use of them has been increasing since the end of last century. Studies conducted between 2012 and 2014 in Campina Grande-PB showed that there is an adopting healing practices of complementary medicine by the population investigated. This work aims to understand the choices of healing ways realized by residentes that perform complementary medicine served by as ACS in Campina Grande. The following methodological procedures were performed: analysis of the results from PIBIC research named ―The art of health care: relationship between the resident and the ACS in Campina Grande-PB‖; achievement of interviews with health providers in the research mentioned above which are those who provide care for a higher percentage of alternative healing practice medicine; developing of a map in GIS environment to spatialize the information related to the percentage of alternative health practices adherents. The adoption of traditional and alternative healing practices by the residents and health providers is related to cultural, economic, environmental and organizational aspects. A dialogue with these people will allow a better rationalization of actions in an effort to promote healthy spaces inside alternative and traditional medicine.