Agentes Comunitários de Saúde: agenciadores de encontros entre territórios

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Samira Lima da [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Carvalho, Emílio Nolasco de [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-81232012001100010; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/7377
• topic: Community-institution relations; Technical health staff; Community health workers; Access to health services; Relações comunidade-instituição; Pessoal técnico de saúde; Agentes Comunitários de Saúde; Acesso aos serviços de Saúde

This article presents reflections originating from a series of meetings with community health workers over a period of ten years. It identifies the consolidation of two existential territories, which are sometimes closer and at other times more distant from each other, namely the territory of technical knowledge about health and the territory of popular knowledge about health. Starting with the analysis of some quotes from health workers and reflections which tally with the theoretical reference in the area, this paper discusses some of the dilemmas and deadlocks of access and affiliation from the perspective of some of these health workers, as well as the strategies devised on a day-to-day basis from the crossovers that take place between these two territories. It identifies the function of community health workers as frontier agents, at times acting as inventors or motivators of contact zones between the territories, and at other times acting as a representative by one territory inside the other.