Inserção de práticas integrativas e complementares no programa melhor em casa em um município alagoano

Abstract

This project is the Final Paper of the Specialization in Public Health with Emphasis on Interprofessionality, the intervention consisted of the insertion of Integrative and Complementary Practices in the municipality of Teotônio Vilela. The feasibility of this project resulted from the need to promote the reduction of excessive medicalizationof the elderly assisted by the Melhor em Casa Program through a holistic practice of the health team, since it is necessary the adhere to practices that are in disease prevention and health promotion field, based on a model of humanized care and centered on the individual's integrality. The methodological approach is characterizedby the situational strategic planning model involving health workers from different areas and favoring the design of the operation for different scenarios to promote other forms of care for users of the Melhor em Casa program. The practices were seen in this project as a form of health recovery, being driven by the impulse to be actively involved in a process in which it is possible to take care of health in a holistic way.