The hospitality in Primary Health Care: relations of reciprocity between workers and users

This research addresses the practice of hospitality, analyzing the relationships of reciprocity between workers and users in the Family Health Strategy. This is a descriptive, explanatory and qualitative research, with data collection through semi-structured interviews and analysis by the collective subject's discourse technique. The results showed that the regulation has repercussion on the relations of reciprocity. The hospitality has favored the exchange of gifts. However, aspects related to the poor physical infrastructure, to the excessive demand, to the precariousness of the reference network, to the physician-centered vision and to the vulnerability of the population, have hindered the mutual relations between subjects.

Hospitality; Family Health Strategy; Humanization of assistance