Comprehensive and care networks: Experience in PET-Health/health attention networks

Abstract

This paper addresses health education based on the experience of the PET-Health/ Health Attention Networks developed at the Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ). Understanding mental health care as a comprehensive practice that includes varied and complex networks (formal, territory, and family), this project used cartography, inviting the researcher to be in the territory and the patient’s daily life. Thus, there is an investment in the expanded education of undergraduate students, offering a dialogue between theory and practice. Cases are presented to illustrate this experience, which aims to identify and intervene in the dynamics of care networks. Understanding the networks and identifying affective territories increases the possibilities of comprehensive care, promoting health and quality of life.