ENTERING THE TERRITORY IN ORDER TO LEVERAGE ACCESS: EXPERIENCE REPORT

The territorialization is a fundamental Family Health Strategy tool in the current understanding of the health-disease process, pointing biological, psychological and social variables in order to propose actions that may facilitate understanding and intervention of problems affecting a territory. In this context, the Heart Center (HC) Lineu Jucá in Fortaleza offers health care to its patients in the territory in a space provided by the community through an established link. The objective was to repot the experience of medical students with accessibility and territorialization in HC. It is a descriptive study of the environment recognition, population and social dynamics in an area of difficult access both by geography as by social tensions. Medical students could join the entire healthcare team in order to make home visits and follow the appointments in the territory, besides the performed ones at the HC. So they could have an approach towards the reality experienced in the community by the professionals, facing its main strengths and difficulties. Problems such as poor sanitation and lack of garbage collection, and social challenges such as alcoholism, drug abuse and violence were observed. Another important aspect was the enhancement of patient-professional relationship as a foundation on team performance and access to health services. The health team's role in the community was essential to creating links. So a rich experience on access and territorialization was provided to medical students.