A QUALIDADE SOMOS NÓS”: CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE CUIDADO NA ATUAÇÃO DAS AGENTES COMUNITÁRIAS DE SAÚDE EM MITUAÇU, CONDE – PB JOÃO PESSOA 2020

Abstract

In line with the changes in health care know-how, and the temporal changes that each epoch demands, some reforms and innovations in health services came into force in Brazil after the 1988 Constitution. In particular, the municipalization of health, which guaranteed the redistribution of basic care, with the creation of Basic Health Units (UBS). Among the professionals who make up the UBS team are the Community Health Agents (ACS), responsible for community-based care, educational work in health, among other duties that will be discussed throughout this work. In Brazil, the position of ACS was institutionalized in 2002, with the North and Northeast regions being contemplated at first. In the following year, the UBS of Mituaçu is created, a quilombola community on the south coast of Paraiba, where the ethnographic data of this monograph was built. Here, the impacts of therapeutic transitions in Mituaçu will be discussed, with the presence of a unit specialized in allopathic care. Simultaneously, it is observed to what extent some traditional practices are vivid in the memory and daily life of the community, knowledge that is part of the local quilombola safeguard. Furthermore, the work is specifically dedicated to the practice of two quilombola ACS's, active in the community, as the care conducted by these professionals constantly adjust to the cultural specificities of Mituaçu