The Family Health Program aims at - and is responsible for - changing the current doctor-centered/disease-healing notion of health care to a health-promoting/disease-preventing notion that is carried out by a multidisciplinary team. Home visits are the main tools for understanding the totality of determinants affecting people's lives. The article discusses the notions of "home visits" as understood by the three major categories of Family Health Program workers - that is, doctors, nurses and community workers - and the interrelation between these notions and training received in basic courses. The "Discourse of the Collective Subject" methodology was applied during interviews. The authors concluded that disparities in the understanding of what home visits would be may hinder the changes proposed to the current health care model. The article also comments these different understandings and their influence on how teams organize work.
health team; home visits; Family Health Program; training; discourse of the collective subject
