Health care territories: communication and memory in the practice of medicine by traditional Afro-Brazilian people

Abstract

This article examines both culture and medicine practice by the traditional Afro-Brazilian people as health social determinants in different ethnic groups, their relations with communicative processes and the implementation of public policies, specially the Política Nacional de Práticas Integrativas em Saúde e Complementares no SUS (National policy of integrative and complementary health practice by SUS), and the fild of heritage of health education. It is based on the narrative analysis of the project developed by Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) from 2004 to 2008 in the communication and health area by means of art languages, related to issues proposed on PhD thesis about memories of the cultural and social diversity revealed by traditional people in its cure arts in Jurema Sagrada, in phase of development through the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Memória Social (Postgraduate program in social memory at Unirio Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. This text points out important issues about communication processes in health education through mapping of knowledge territories as strategies for memory and resistance of ethnic groups.