Abstract
Considered specialists in people, Family and Community Medicine has in its constitution of values and principles comprehensive, humanistic and person-centered care, seeking to develop ideas and people with a view to equity and transformation of patients into protagonists. In this context, the specialty works directly with neglected populations, both at the level of primary care in family health units and in street clinics, prisons, assistance to refugee populations, migrants and a comprehensive approach to the LGBT population. This work within the scope of social medicine, beyond a strictly biological view of illness and human beings, dialogues with the pillars of training of the specialty, based on primary care, medical education, humanism, and mainly on the training of leaders. This work seeks to discuss in a reflective way, through a narrative review of the literature, the challenges, opportunities and fields of action of Family and Community Medicine with neglected populations.
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