Integrative And Complementary Practices: A Care Tool In The Context Of Primary Health Care
International Journal of Development Research
Integrative And Complementary Practices: A Care Tool In The Context Of Primary Health Care
Received 17th November, 2020 Received in revised form 22nd December, 2020 Accepted 05th January, 2021 Published online 24th February, 2021
Copyright © 2020, Tamires Jesus Sousa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Justification. Integrative and Complementary Practices (PICs) have the purpose of preventing and treating diseases through natural mechanisms that promote health through treatments based on traditional knowledge and effective technologies. Objective. Verify if the Integrative and Complementary Practices are tools of care in Primary Health Care. Methodology. Integrative review of national literature. The data collection was performed in the indexable database LILACS (Latin American Health Science Literature Database) and SCIELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), with descriptors: Integrative and Complementary Practices, Health Professionals, Primary Health Care. Results. After the analysis of the selected articles, 08 articles composed the sample. Conclusion. The use of Integrative and Complementary Practices is a resource of care in basic attention contributing to the promotion of a better quality of life.
