Perspectivas e desafios para o campo das racionalidades médicas e práticas integrativas e complementares em saúde.

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Title: Perspectivas e desafios para o campo das racionalidades médicas e práticas integrativas e complementares em saúde.
Alternate Title: Perspectives and challenges for the field of medical rationality and integrative and complementary health practices.
Perspectivas y desafíos para el campo de las racionalidades médicas y prácticas integradoras y complementarias en salud.
Authors: Dall'Alba, Rafael1,2 rafasaudecol@gmail.com, de Oliveira, Gustavo Nunes3 oliveiragn@ufscar.br, Ribeiro, Fatima Sueli Neto4 fatsuerj@gmail.com, de Castro, Magda Ribeiro5 magdarcastro2010@gmail.com, Tesser, Charles Dalcanale6 charles.tesser@ufsc.br
Source: Interface - Comunicação, Saúde, Educação. 2026 Supplement, p1-18. 17p.
Subject Terms: *Professional employee training, Traditional medicine, Primary health care, Medical decision making, Alternative medicine, Health care industry, Overdiagnosis, Justice
Abstract (English): This essay analyzes medical rationality and integrative and complementary health practices (MR/ICHP) in the context of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS), drawing on the work of Abrasco's MR/ICHP Thematic Group. It discusses traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) and inconsistencies and limitations in the institutionalization of ICHP, especially in primary health care. We advocate for the expansion of professional training and ICHP research and the strengthening of policies addressing traditional medicines (greater recognition of indigenous, African, and popular practices). We also highlight the challenges and opportunities of this agenda from a critical intercultural perspective, based on the principles of comprehensiveness, good living and epistemic justice. TCIM is viewed as a strategic path for addressing overmedicalization in health care and the dispute over the direction to be taken of the SUS care model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Abstract (Spanish): Este ensayo analiza las racionalidades médicas y las prácticas integradoras y complementarias en salud (RM/PICS) en el contexto del Sistema Brasileño de Salud (SUS), a partir de la actuación del Grupo Temático RM/PICS de Abrasco. Se discuten las medicinas tradicionales complementarias e integradoras (MTCI) y las incoherencias y los límites de la institucionalización de las PICS, especialmente en la atención primaria de la salud. Se defiende la ampliación de la formación profesional y de las investigaciones en PICS y el fortalecimiento de las políticas enfocadas en las medicinas tradicionales (mayor reconocimiento de las prácticas indígenas, de matriz africana y populares). Se subrayan desafíos y oportunidades de esa agenda, en perspectiva crítica intercultural, con base en los principios de la integralidad, del bien vivir y de la justicia epistémica. Las MTCI se ven como un camino estratégico para el enfrentamiento de la sobremedicalización de los cuidados de salud y de la disputa sobre la dirección del modelo de atención en el SUS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Abstract (Portuguese): Este ensaio analisa as racionalidades médicas e as práticas integrativas e complementares em saúde (RM/PICS) no contexto do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) a partir da atuação do Grupo Temático RM/PICS da Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva. São discutidas as Medicinas Tradicionais, Complementares e Integrativas (MTCI), as incoerências e os limites da institucionalização das PICS, especialmente na Atenção Primária à Saúde. Defende-se a ampliação da formação profissional e das pesquisas em PICS e o fortalecimento das políticas voltadas às medicinas tradicionais (o que envolve o maior reconhecimento das práticas indígenas, de matriz africana e populares). Destacam-se desafios e oportunidades dessa agenda, em perspectiva crítica intercultural, com base nos princípios da integralidade, do bem viver e da justiça epistêmica. As MTCI são vistas como um caminho estratégico para o enfrentamento da sobremedicalização dos cuidados em saúde e da disputa sobre o direcionamento do modelo de atenção no SUS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:This essay analyzes medical rationality and integrative and complementary health practices (MR/ICHP) in the context of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS), drawing on the work of Abrasco's MR/ICHP Thematic Group. It discusses traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) and inconsistencies and limitations in the institutionalization of ICHP, especially in primary health care. We advocate for the expansion of professional training and ICHP research and the strengthening of policies addressing traditional medicines (greater recognition of indigenous, African, and popular practices). We also highlight the challenges and opportunities of this agenda from a critical intercultural perspective, based on the principles of comprehensiveness, good living and epistemic justice. TCIM is viewed as a strategic path for addressing overmedicalization in health care and the dispute over the direction to be taken of the SUS care model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:14143283
DOI:10.1590/interface.250195