Abstract
The importance of the Family Health Strategy in the health sector in Brazil, and the debate on technology and technological innovation have led to the development of a theoretical reflection aiming to characterize the Family Health Strategy as a non-material technological innovation of the health field. In order to construct the text, the philosophical and sociological approach was used, as was the conceptualization of technological innovation, found in international documents and in Brazilian legislation and publications regarding technological innovation in health care. These references were used in order to analyze what is prescribed for the Family Health Strategy in the National Primary Healthcare Policy, emphasizing the innovative aspects in relation to biomedicine, which made it possible to support that the Family Health Strategy consists of a non-material technological innovation in health care, of the incremental type. It is concluded that the Family Health Strategy is a non-material technological innovation in health care, due to the principles which it anchors, and is incremental, as it does not completely break with the traditional model in health care.
Highlights
We found in this review studies which addressed the consequences of technological innovation in health professionals’ workloads,[7,8] studies which take the Family Health Strategy (FHS) as a technological innovation[8,9] and productions which conceptualize the terms ‘technology’ and ‘technology in health’
The reflection was constructed recovering the terms of technique, technology and technological innovation, available in the philosophical and sociological approach, and the conceptualization of technological innovation found in international documents and in Brazilian legislation, as well as the relevance of technological innovation in health care
The conclusion was supported by the evidence found in the literature, in the National Primary Health Care Policy (NHCP), and in the databases of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, which point to a break, not in its entirety, with the traditional model guided by biomedicine, improving, and presenting new services and processes
Summary
The Family Health Strategy (FHS) represents a significant and structuring alternative for Brazilian health policy, with a view to attending the stipulations of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 on health, and the principles of the Unified Health System (SUS).[1,2]. The reflection was constructed recovering the terms of technique, technology and technological innovation, available in the philosophical and sociological approach, and the conceptualization of technological innovation found in international documents and in Brazilian legislation, as well as the relevance of technological innovation in health care. It finalizes the argument analyzing what is prescribed for the FHS in the Brazilian Primary Healthcare Policy (PNAB), relating it to the theoretical debate regarding technological innovation
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