FOREST TEAM ECOMAP: APPROACHING SUPPORT NETWORKS AND PROMOTING HEALTH

Introduction and Objective The Ecopmap is an important Family and Community Medicine tool for the visualization of areas to be explored inside the social system of support to patients and their families. Implementing such a tool in a Family Health Team is an interesting challenge in the optimization of its social actions regarding the health unit and the community in which it is inserted. This work aims to disseminate a positive experience of approximation between social sectors of a neighborhood for the benefit of its population. Method Use of Ecomap in Team Meetings as a productive space for assessment and planning of social actions in the Alto da Boa Vista community. The Ecomap was explored dynamically, using cardboard and some pens. Results and Conclusions The Ecomap, recording the moment a social network cohabits the space of a team, allowed us to illustrate, comprehend, create hypotheses, integrate and engage with our support network, crossing barriers and opening the way for important social actions. Thus, we were able to visualize a mutual distancing between the health unit and the headquarters of the neighborhood’s eight Residents Associations. In a process of a rapprochement, it was possible to use some of those offices as shelter for health actions such as cytological collection preventive cervical on Saturdays, as part of the Prevention Campaign. This strategy brought the CMS Nicola Albano closer to the care of the neighborhood’s female residents who were unable to frequent the health unit during business hours, allowing greater coverage of care.