OBJECTIVE:
To analyze the testimonies of nurses concerning the integrality of actions within child- and family-centered care, grasping strengths and weaknesses in a search for the defense of children's right to health.
METHODS:
Exploratory study using qualitative thematic analysis based on care and the right to health. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 nurses working within the Family Health Strategy in Passos (MG), Brazil.
RESULTS:
The testimonies show aspects related to communication between professionals and services, gaps in partnerships and limitations in terms of integrality and inter-sector actions. Positive and negative partnerships were reported, while the joint work between professionals and services was acknowledged.
CONCLUSION:
Broadened approaches designed to provide integral care and to construct a practice that avoids gaps in partnerships and that increase integrality and inter-sector cooperation among health actions are important, especially in the face of a set of laws and programs designed to provide integral protection to children.
Child; Nursing; Right to Health; Primary Health Care; Comprehensive Health Care