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The normative of the caring on children above one-year-old: a study of meanings applied by the professionals of Family Health Program (FHP)

The Family Health Program was implanted as a change strategy and reorganization of the assistance model, aiming to overcome the fragmentation of care and, then, proposes a quality, humanitarian integral attending. The objective of this work is to identify how children under one-year-old have been cared by professionals of FHP. The study has a qualitative approach, and data was produced in four creative and sensitive workshops. The workshops were taped and transcribed. After that, the observations of the participants were submitted to an analysis. The results demonstrated that the under one-year-old children care has been normative at most. The UBSF researched had no proper environment or instrument for children’s assistance. The professionals have an improper academic formation and they hadn’t been receiving continuous training capable to can act with this age group. Also, there is a huge difficult on facing social and cultural differences on the conduction of medium and high complexity procedures. Nevertheless, professionals consider their work dynamic and challenger, and that their actions have been contributing a lot to children’s health.

To care; Children; Family Health Program


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