A qualitative study that investigated the social representations of health-disease process of families accompanied by Family Health Program (FHP) in the rural zone in the municipal of Lafaiete Coutinho, Bahia, Brazil, aiming at analyzing the social representations of families about the health-disease process. Data were colected through a semi-structured interview with 23 members of several families. Content analysis was used do understand sense nucleous. The results showed that the FHP interferes in the reconstruction of social representations of health-disease process, through the organization of health services and of social production of health. It was concluded the FHP has contributed for the democratization of knowbdge of health-disease process, however it is necessary to dismystify cultural values reinforced by a model of attention that emphasized the recovery of diseases.
Family Health Program; Health disease process; Social values