THE FAMILY RISK SCALE AS A STRATEGY FOR TERRITORIALIZATION IN A MULTIPROFESSIONAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH RESIDENCY

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: The Family Health Strategy (FHS) is presented as the main guidance for the Primary Health Care reorientation in Brazil, regarding the territorialization process as fundamental. Within this context, the family risk scale goes as an approximation tool towards some aspects of the reality of the families accompanied by the FHS. This work aims to exhibit the experience of implementing a family risk scale during the territorialization process. METHOD: The Coelho-Savassi scale was used to evaluate familiar risk in 1192 families accompanied by a Family Health Team in the city of Rio de Janeiro, through family record analysis from the Primary Care Information System - SIAB. The data was entered in the EPI Info 7.0 software for analysis. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Through the application of the Coelho-Savassi scale, it was possible to classify the familiar risk profile of the territory and identify important factors for understanding the community’s dynamic. However, some difficulties like blank data and out of date records were common. The authors emphasize that field experience is essential to compare and complement the information obtained through such an instrument, since the information collected through the scale does not reflect some important aspects of the community’s reality. In the opinion of the present authors, the application of a family risk scale during the territorialization process is a tool that enables the approach of residents and health students towards some aspects of the reality of families and their territories, thereby facilitating the territorialization process.