Interculturalidade em saúde na atenção à população indígena

Abstract

Introduction: Biomedical practice with scientific and Western knowledge, based on the training of graduates in the health area, delimits health care in a standardized way. Health professionals, in general, have a deficit in their academic training regarding knowledge about the diversity of indigenous culture. Objective: To understand how interculturality in health is carried out in the work process of health professionals at the base center of Paulo Afonso. Method: This is an exploratory research with a qualitative approach. Results: the categories of analysis that emerged were: Training of Professionals for Indigenous Health Care; Interculturality is respecting the culture of the other; Relationship between biomedicine and traditional knowledge; Challenges for implementing indigenous health care; Conclusions: The analysis made it possible to understand that there are different challenges for health professionals to work in an intercultural context, which confirmed the need for specific preparation for working with indigenous people and reflected the absence of training that could provide this solution in courses. training in the health area. In addition, the lack of infrastructure and logistics is a factor that crosses the lines regarding the difficulties encountered in accessing the villages to carry out the work. It was possible to perceive that the professionals, for the most part, understand the interculturality in health as “respect the culture of the other”, understanding that, in addition to scientific knowledge, there are other ways of thinking and doing health, through the traditional knowledge of the people they have. assisted. The present study presents as contributions to Collective Health and in the context of the SUS, the possibility that the data obtained provide scientific knowledge, problematizations and theoretical and practical gains to support public policies, as well as the importance of understanding the diversity of systems and practices of health, which contributes to the direction and decision-making by managers. The sacredness of study seeks to contribute in particular to our health. We, indigenous peoples, need and must have the guarantee and offer of a service that contemplates and respects our diversity.