Nutritional care by foreigners in the More Doctors Project for Brazil

Abstracts

We aim to investigate the influence of different sociocultural origins in both Cuban physicians participating in More Doctors Project for Brazil and Brazilian patients’ diet and nutrition approach in primary health care services. The case study was made using triangulation method, ethnography, focus groups and interviews. It was applied Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical approach, in particular, the habitus (i.e. social and cultural origin) concept. The results showed that the diet and nutrition guidelines are highly influenced by the biomedical paradigm, attenuating possible influences of the habitus.

More Doctors Project for Brazil; Habitus; Nutrition; Bourdieu