Community helping services: dynamic of formation and expressiveness of the cultural care.
Community helping services is an expression used by the social movements to designate families that live in shacks installed in a public area intended for building of own house at a community helping system. Studies in ethnonursing that aimed: in order to detail dynamic configuration in a community helping service. It took place in an community helping area located in the outskirts of Fortaleza, Ceará. The community members acting as general informants from the local culture, while eight (8) women heads-of-families, working as key informers. The data collect used the Observation-Participation-Reflection Model. The analyses were processing by the time that the dates were collected, considering the categories: inserting in the community helping culture to obtain their history; community helping is not a slum -describing the formation dynamic. Established that the formation dynamic of the community helping go on the own house representation as a symbol of " a better life". To assimilate such expression introducing in own cultural universe is a challenge for the nursing to assist a care culture congruent.
Landim
Fátima Luna Pinheiro
FL
Collective Health Nursing, Fortaleza University. llunna@terra.com.br
D001938:Brazil; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans