Home Visits by the Family Health Team: thoughts about the need for a broader professional view

Abstract

Home visits play an essential role in the work of the Family Health Teams. However, breaking the biomedical model and gaining a more comprehensive view of the patients’ needs is not always easy or simple. In an attempt to solve this question, the Orange Team of the Health Center Jardim Montanhês created a home visit record form, presented in this paper. This form is aimed at providing information necessary for planning the patient’s care and allows taking knowledge of questions that reach beyond the simple treatment of the diseased body.