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Alternative and complementary medicine in the basic health system network in Brazil: a qualitative approach

Silvana Cappelleti Nagai 1
Marcos de Souza Queiroz 2

1

Universidade Paulista. Rua
Comendador Enzo Ferrari
280. 13043-900 Campinas
SP. [e-mail]
2
Universidade Estadual de
Campinas.

Abstract This article focuses on the social representations of health professionals about the introduction of complementary and alternative medical practices in the public health service network in Campinas city (SP, Brazil). Based in an essentially qualitative methodological perspective, the article analyses the general conditions, the problems and the obstacles related to the implementation of such practices. The success of this inclusion was found in four main reasons: the clientele disposition which gives support and demands this kind of service; the health vision of the sanitarian doctors, which is open to such project; the wide support given by the non-medical health professions, which intend to add value and amplify their practice and, finally, the own perspective of the alternative and complementary medicines, which agree with the Unified Health System (SUS) proposals. Despite the success in the implementation of such practices in the health basic system, two negative aspects were detected: the insufficient planning and the simplified vision which converts such rationalities in mere techniques, which follow the same mechanistic principles of the allophatic medicine and the same reified understanding of disease.
Key words Alternative medicines and Brazilian
Health System, Medical rationalities and paradigms in health, Brazilian Health System Reform

Resumo O artigo focaliza as representações sociais de profissionais da área da saúde sobre a introdução de práticas médicas complementares e alternativas na rede básica do município de Campinas (SP). A partir de uma perspectiva metodológica essencialmente qualitativa, o artigo analisa as condições, os