Vínculo: Um conceito problemático no campo da Saúde Coletiva

Abstract

The relationship between professionals and people who use health services is an important issue within the scope of the SUS and acquires a special language in the National Primary Care Policy (PNAB) by the use of the word “bond”. This article aims to focus on the semantic dimension of the use of the term “bond” in Collective Health, reviewing research and official texts of the sector policy that include it in its descriptors or point it as relevant in its results. We selected 52 articles in Lilacs and SciELO databases, including in the subject or title fields the word “bond”, associating it with the descriptors: Primary Health Care, Basic Health Care, Single Health System, Family Health, Family Health Strategy, Collective Health, Public Health. We conclude that, although the studies refer to the term/concept noting its unequivocal importance in the field of health, bond is almost always something not seen, but that it should exist as a condition for the functioning of the service in terms of accountability and longitudinality of care. This place of invisibility certainly does not mean the place of non-existence, but of the theoretical-methodological precariousness concerning conceptions and designs of research that touch on such complex relational phenomena as this one in the field of Collective Health.