FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE AND WORKING WITH NEGLECTED POPULATIONS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CARE OF THE INVISIBLE

Abstract

Considered as specialists in people, Family and Community Medicine has in its constitution of values and principles integral, humanistic and person-centered care, seeking to develop ideas and people in a view of equity and transformation of patients into protagonists. In this context, the specialty works directly with neglected populations, both at the level of primary care in family health units, as well as in street clinics, penitentiaries, assistance to refugee and migrant populations, and a comprehensive approach to the LGBT population. This performance in the scope of social medicine, in addition to a strictly biological view of illness and the human being, dialogues with the pillars of training of the specialty, based on primary care, medical education, humanism, and especially in the training of leaders. The present work seeks to reflexively debate, through a narrative review of the literature, about challenges, opportunities and fields of action of Family and Community Medicine with neglected populations.