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The popular education and the health care: a study from the work of Eymard Mourão Vasconcelos

The article analyzes the conceptions about health care in authors of Popular Education in Health, with fundamental reference to the works of Eymard Mourão Vasconcelos published between 1994 and 2009. It is a literature research, qualitative, exploratory level, analytical and that besides of systematizing the formulations of this author, points to several possibilities for discussion with researchers of the theme of care. The texts were grouped into the following categories: power relations in health care; critiques to biomedicine, individual care, the approach to the family. It seeks to stimulate the production of new concepts from the integration between formulations of thinkers who have not themselves approached, despite it’s potential thematic nearby.

Popular Health Education; Health care; Qualitative research


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