Public health bachelor in the expanded family health and basic healthcare centers (nasf-ab): performance and experiences in health residencies

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the performance of resident sanitarians in the NASF-AB, more specifically, their performance in the dimensions of matrix support and in the subareas of the field of Collective Health. This is a qualitative study with a comprehensive methodology based on Schütz’s phenomenological theoretical framework to understand social reality and the meanings attributed to this work. In-depth interviews were conducted with five residents, bachelors in Public Health, working in the NASF-AB in Pernambuco in 2019.The results reveal practices comprised in management activities, planning, management, health surveillance, health promotion and education actions, community mobilization strategies, and intersectoral actions. Among the potentialities, the stimulus to multi-professional work and the broadening of health actions stand out. The challenges include the development of practices in the care field, the lack of knowledge about the profession, and the lack of a preceptor. Sanitarians find in residencies powerful spaces for their practices, focusing their objects of intervention on social determinants and collectivities for support beyond the managerial logic, the fight for rights and mobilizations in defense of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS).