The Family Health strategy, main proposal for reorganizing the health care model, is politically, institutionally and economically supported by the State, as an alternative for the consolidation of the Unified Health System's principles. The proposal's expansion and implementation in large urban centers has faced many difficulties, due to complex social, political and economic contexts involving the families residing in these territories. These difficulties have been largely discussed by diverse Public Health specialists. This article analyses the uses and meanings of the terms "integral health care, attachment and reception", identifying them as strategic elements in health practices in integral care programs, and in constructing people's right to health as a citizenship right.
reception; attachment; integral health care; family health