title: [How professionals working in the Family Health Strategy program understand integrality of care].
abstract: This study aims to analyze the integrality of assistance, a principle of the Single Health System (SUS), in the perspective of members of the Family Health team (doctors, dentists and nurses). This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out with 47 professionals allotted in nine health care units in the city of Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil. Data collection was done by semi-structured interviews, from August to September, 2008. Content analysis was used to organize and interpret the data. In the results professionals understood integrality as linked to the terms: holism, treatment in the three levels of care, interdisciplinarity and amplified health concept. The polysemy of integrality and its transversality as a SUS principle signal the need to reconsider the many meanings attributed to integrality, increasing the possibilities to discuss the it in the health practice scene.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (UNILAB), Redenção, Ceará, Brasil. linard@unilab.edu.br
authors.forename: Andrea Gomes
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Linard
authors.forename: Marina Martins
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: de Castro
authors.forename: Ana Kelly Lima
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: da Cruz
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D005192:Family Health; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team