Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the social representations of professionals working at Family Health Support Centers operating under the 4th Regional Executive Department, in Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil, with regard to interdisciplinarity in their daily work. It is a qualitative study, which used participant observation techniques and semi-structured interviews with 15 professionals and coordinators to collect data. The theoretical saturation criterion was used in the sample definition. The analysis used the in-depth hermeneutics. The representations were organized in these categories: Process under construction, undertaking joint activities, and outcome of the teams’ commitment. The paths taken point to yet embryonic interdisciplinarity, the outcome of numerous factors that are intrinsic and extrinsic to the group itself. The difficulties arising from pressure imposed by management for productivity, the incipient planning, the training process that incorporates some of this perspective, and the precarious labor relations are elements that have a negative impact on the performance of interdisciplinary practices. The speeches denote endless possibilities that are built in the field of health and inspire overcoming the fragmentation of multiple knowledge that works in the collective perspective.
Keywords
primary health care; family health support center; interdisciplinarity; social representations