INTERPROFISSIONALITY AND INTEGRALITY OF CARE: A CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL READING OF CONCEPTS

Abstract

This study aims to deepen the concepts of interprofessionality and integrality of care, in the light of contemporary philosophy, the theoretical construct of national and international researchers and the testimony of students in the health field on the subject. The methodology gives the study a qualitative character, whose theoretical and philosophical support is based on the discussions of Nietzsche, Foucault and Deleuze & Guatarri, as well as on the field research, applied to 17 students entering undergraduate courses in the health area, through an interview by the platform digital Google forms. The study's conclusions indicate that interprofessionality is not a content or a technique to be taught, but attitudes to be developed both in the professional space and in health education, based on behaviors and interpersonal interactions for teamwork, in order to achieve comprehensive care. The difficulties that are related to its effectiveness are linked to the constitution of the health field, to the hierarchies that have installed themselves as a domination device, to the spatialization of the disease disregarding the human being and his complexity, and to the ideological way in which the construction of some concepts and that need more delimitation to become reality.