This study aimed to analyze the Family Health Strategy workers’ perception related with the pupose of their work. Twelve interviews were conducted: nine with workers from three Family Health Teams, that were considered as reference by municipal managers, and three with workers from Family Health Support Group, all of them with higher education. The transcription of the interviews was submitted to content analysis. Conceptual construction of the interviewed workers’ purpose of work was identified as regardingthe recognition of individual- centered care related with their unique needs, associated with their families and communities. This result indicated the high degree of complexity that guides the work under the Family Health Strategy, where the object of work goes beyond the individual and the biological dimension, and encompasses the social determination and its familiar and communal relationship.
Family Health Strategy; Work; Human resources; Qualitative analysis