Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso de Especialização
O papel do médico veterinário nos Núcleos de Apoio à Saúde da Família (NASF)
Fecha
2014-12-01Autor
Fontoura, Karla Ferreira
Institución
Resumen
Veterinary Medicine is one of the professions encompassed by the health area
and it is closely linked to Public Health. Nonetheless, it is rarely recognized for this
merit. The main gateway to the Basic Health Care system in Brazil is the Family Health
Strategy, made up of multidisciplinary teams (doctors, nurses, dentists, nursing and
dental technicians, and community health agents) that work directly with the clientele
of a health territory. Since 2008, Family Health Support Centers (NASF) have been set
up in order to provide technical support to the Family Health teams (eSFs), i.e., help
solve problems or doubts that the eSFs might have. These NASF are composed of an
extensive list of health care professionals. However, between 2008 and 2011,
Veterinary Medicine had no legal support to compose NASF. This situation changed
with Decree No. 2.488/2011 from the Ministry of Health. Since then, Veterinarians have
been recognized as human public health agents and can, therefore, work in the
development of public health actions to provide technical support to the eSFs they are
linked to. “This contributes to the comprehensiveness of the care given to the users of
the National Public Health System (SUS), mainly through clinical expansion. It helps
to increase the analysis and intervention capacity regarding health issues and needs,
in clinical as well as in health and environmental terms inside the territories.” (National
Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, 2013). This is especially true for those
problems connected to antropozoonoses or care and preservation of foods of animal origin.