Cartografia da reinvenção de uma rede de acolhimento, cuidado e integralidade em saúde

Abstract

This paper reports the changes in the practice of receptiveness, health care and referentation of the patients at the mental health clinic for children and adolescents belonging to Unified National Health System (SUS) in the city of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, in 2007. The choice for the concept of investigation was the intervention research and cartography, the method recording the metamorphosis of this territory. The qualification of the receptiveness carried out by the service based on the improvement of reference and counter-reference tools of patients at Basic Health Units (UBS) for the clinic was the main effect of the intervention.