Nursing care in family health in the Jequitinhonha Valley, Brazil

Abstract

This research sought to understand healthcare in family health strategy through the contact of nurses with patients. It is an ethnographic study with nurses from family health teams in the valley of the Jequitinhonha river, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. In the understanding of structural concepts, this work examines concepts and meanings attributed to care, with a look at the local population immersed in its beliefs, values and knowledge, in which nurses live a diversity of care, according to the bases of the National Health System and a new paradigm of care: integrality, the concept of coverage and territorial responsibility.