Culture Circle as a strategy to promote health: encounters between popular education and interdisciplinarity

Abstract

Health promotion is a care strategy in Primary Health Care (PHC) that must see health as a social-historic  dynamic permeated by social determinants.  Moreover, PHC aims to promote the quality of life, reducing vulnerabilities and health risks related to  determinants and conditions of health. There are  groups in health territories that require actively search  and integrative care of health services, due to  their condition of vulnerability. This experience report  presents the use of Culture Circle, as proposed by  Paulo Freire, as a tool for health professionals to  approach a family agroupment in a vulnerability  situation in the territory of a Health Care Unit located  in the peripherical region of a city in the south of  Brazil. This strategy strengthens the bond between  health workers and patients, amplifying  empowerment and access to health and dignity, concurrently to the involvement of team workers with  Popular Education in Health.