Interprofessional Collaborative Practices in Collective Spaces of Family Health Units

The way Family Health teams work can encourage sharing between different fields of knowledge and the development of interprofessional collaborative practices. The objective was to understand how interprofessional collaborative practices are built in the work process in Family Health units. Exploratory, descriptive research, with quantitative and qualitative approaches, carried out with Family Health teams from 26 municipalities in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, using secondary data and semi-structured interviews. From the analysis, two thematic categories emerged: the development of interprofessional work and aspects related to the team. The construction of interprofessional collaborative practices permeates collective spaces in moments of professional integration. However, there are weaknesses arising from the fragmentation of professional practices and the lack of user-centeredness.