Um estudo sobre o surgimento da política nacional de práticas integrativas e complementares no SUS

Abstract

This research presents a study about the emergence of the National Policy on Integrative and Complementary (PNPIC), approved by Order Nº 971 of May 3, 2006. This Politics was created to be developed and carried out by the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS), in order to bring guidelines and actions to promote insertion of services and products related to Traditional Chinese Medicine / Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Herbal Medicine and Medicinal Plants in the service of health assistance, and creates health observatories for Social Thermalism and Anthroposophical Medicine. It still contemplates the responsibilities of federal entities, state and local, and seeks to expand the population's access in front of the complementary and integrative practices and to contribute to solvability of the SUS. Through the analysis of this Politics and based on the same, we tried to know events, documents, and other elements that contributed to its emergence and institutionalization process. Thus, we can also identify some actors involved in this process and follow the evolution of integrative practices within the scope of public health policies. The methodology is qualitative, especially based on content analysis of documents and other sources that refer to the emergence of politics. This research assumes that the area of formation of public policies is a field of disputes between different kinds of knowledge and political and ideological interests. The research justifies its relevance due to the fact that integrative and complementary practices in healthcare are reaching an increasing visibility among users of care and maintenance of health in society today; in this sense monitoring its unfolding and institutionalization becomes an issue of diversity and citizenship, since the integrative practices proposed a completeness in health care and, the completeness one of the basic principles of SUS, Politics comes to reinforce this principle. The proposal is part of the Research Line Gender, Body and Healthcare, with the guidance of Professor Dr. Borges Zulmira Newlands.