Relationship between territory and health residence: a possible decolonial experience?

Abstract

Can the presence of health residency in the territory be a way to decolonize the academy? This article  addresses the possibility of decolonizing the academy through a multiprofessional family health residency  program focused on rural health in the region. This is  an experiential report whose epistemological basis is  postcolonial and decolonial theories, especially the  pedagogy of the territory, and includes elements of  interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary training, the  territory and health, the relationship between the  territory and the health of the rural population in the  Quilombola community of Estivas, in the rural region  of Garanhuns, Pernambuco. The conclusion is that the  multiprofessional residency, as an institute of  collective spaces, allows a new look at the territory,  the community and health professionals to develop  their actions based on interdisciplinarity, popular  education and continuous training as a practice to  understand other ways of producing health and  stimulate change not only in the community and  health professionals, but especially in society, making  an important contribution to the decolonization of  the academy.