This qualitative research had the objective of knowing the significance of the health-sickness-care process to homeless person and workers of a community center to homeless people on São Paulo city. The dates were collected by the interview with four homeless person and four workers. The interviews were separated in three categories: 1) the apprehension of the health sickness-care process, 2) the caring of health in the street, 3) advices to survive in the street. The results showed that even with the difference of the homeless person, the street have a specific culture relative of the health-sickness-care person that need to be comprehend by nurses.
Health-disease process; Homeless persons; Nursing care