title: [Home care and its relationship to the work environment in health].
abstract: This paper discusses home care as a service that has expanded in the public and private health system, while arguing for the possibility that such care can leverage a significant impact on the population's quality of life and health. The article presents home care as a strategic possibility for reorganizing the health system, by means of integration between health workers and health institutions, and considers its possible political, economic, and technical impacts on the health system, health workers, and users of the service.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brasil. nalu@vetorial.net
authors.forename: Nalú Pereira da Costa
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Kerber
authors.forename: Ana Lúcia Cardoso
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Kirchhof
authors.forename: Marta Regina
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Cezar-Vaz
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life