Attention to child’s health of primary care: analyze of dissertations and thesis of nursing

Abstract

This work had as objective to analyze the scientific production of masters degree course’s programs in nursing about the assistance to children on health’s basic area. The documental research was realized with the catalogs of the Center of Study and Research in Nursing (CEPEN), of the Nursing Brazilian Association (ABEn), in the period comprehended between 2000 and 2006. There were identified 15 studies that, after analysis of the content, helped to identify three thematic categories: the nurse’s practice in the child’s health on basic area; the attention to child’s health in the Family Health Program (PSF); the nursing and the search for a whole assistance to children. The conclusion is that the practice of nursing is still focused in the hegemonic medical model, which privileges curative practices, which are fragmented and with a low resolution. However, there is a very good will to win this model and result in a promotion of health and integrally.