title: [Child health follow-up and the longitudinality of caring].
abstract: This reflexive study aims to present, in the perspective of the philosophical hermeneutics, relevant elements for the follow-up of child health in primary health care. Child health is guided by the growth and development process in childhood, and it is essential to stimulate the production of statements, to know the choices and decisions taken, to strengthen virtues and daily experiences, contributing to improve care and perceive it in an integrative, contingent, wide and sufficiently good perspective. Child follow-up can be seen as a health care technology that does not presuppose a priori knowledge, but which refers to a reconstruction of knowledge and practices with new dimensions for the production of care.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Materno Infantil e Saúde Pública, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil. defmello@eerp.usp.br
authors.forename: Débora Falleiros
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: de Mello
authors.forename: Maria Cândida de Carvalho
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Furtado
authors.forename: Luciana Mara Monti
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Fonseca
authors.forename: Juliana Coelho
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Pina
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D002669:Child Welfare; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D006801:Humans