The need to increase collaboration between disciplines and professions is often stressed in different texts and suggested as a possible solution to the many impasses and issues that teams working in health and education programs and services face. However, the discussion on disciplinary and professional interaction has failed to advance in relation to what was introduced in Brazil in the 70s. On the other hand, the Brasilian Health System (SUS) needs proposals that actually make the integration of knowledge and practice viable in the field of services. This article critiques the dominant notion of interdisciplinary and inter-professional collaboration and suggests that services be organized based on reference teams as a way to encourage and increase collaboration between disciplines and professions.
Interdisciplinarity and health; Health services; Service organization and administration; Collective health; Health planning
