LIMA, D. G.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4377315318577302; LIMA, Deyse Gomes.
Abstract:
The popular wisdom and its relationship to the health of individuals involve cultural and religious issues. Therapies not made official, though not possess technical and scientific evidence required by the current hegemonic health model, they are associated with healing practices that have historical character and are perpetuated to the present day. Even with the advances made by science and overlap to popular practice, there has been the quacks of stay to do their work in order to treat and cure diseases through benzimento. This study aimed to reveal the limits and possibilities of the work of traditional healers. This is an exploratory-descriptive study of predominantly qualitative nature, methodologically based on historical and dialectical materialism and left the discourse analysis proposed by Fiorin (2008) for discussion and analysis. The survey was conducted with five healers, five members of the community who use the work of healers and five health professionals working in the Health Strategy Family of Cuité- PB municipality. The analysis of empirical data obtained from the field it was possible to emerge from an analytical category entitled "limits and possibilities of the work of quacks" and six (06) empirical categories: 1. Reasons that lead people to turn to the work of traditional healers; 2. The influence of traditional healers about the demand for health services; 3. The people know, use, trust and indicates the work done by quacks; 4. Overview of health professionals on the work of healers and their interference in the work of health teams; 5. No interaction between ESF and quacks and 6. Simultaneous use of the work of traditional healers and the health service. It was observed that the population knows, uses and indicates the work of traditional healers and that they advise their clients on the importance of using the health service, but even so, there is no direct interaction between healers and health professionals.
