Brasilia residents are aware of alternatives that integrate physical and mental health and offer integrated care. The result of this is the search for Integrative Health Practices (PIS), offered in 176 health units in the Federal District. Until the beginning of September, 22,563 people carried out some practice on the local network.
Yoga, acupuncture, shantala and community therapy are some of the 17 modalities available, all open to the public. On the website of the Health Department of the Federal District (SES-DF) there is a list with the offer by region. PIS are understood as technologies that address human health in a multidimensional way, that is, in physical, mental, psychic, affective and spiritual ways.
“It leaves us very calm.” This is how Maria da Guia Borges Lima, aged 71, describes the feeling after practicing yoga at the Basic Health Unit (UBS) 10 in Santa Maria. Diagnosed with insomnia and anxiety, the elderly woman started the practice to improve her health. There, she also performs auriculotherapy, a pressure technique on specific points in the ear. “We improve our entire body. It takes away my anxiety and stress,” she says.
Another practice present in the health unit is shantala, a massage technique aimed at babies, which strengthens bonds and brings other benefits to the health of the family as a whole. It can be performed with babies from one month of age onwards. “Many people don’t know about it, my son really liked it, he was very calm,” says Géssica Assis da Silva, mother of four-month-old Leonardo Matias Assis.
Modalities
The Unified Health System (SUS), at the national level, recognizes 29 integrative practices. In the District Policy on Integrative Health Practices (PDPIS), 17 are listed. They are: acupuncture, art therapy, auriculotherapy, self-massage, medicinal plants and herbal medicine, homeopathy, Lian Gong in 18 therapies, medicine and anthroposophic therapies, meditation, music therapy, reiki , shantala, tai chi chuan, Integrative Community Therapy (ICT), ayurveda, yoga (hatha and laya) and the Stress Reduction Technique (ERT).
practitioners.
PIS are carried out by health professionals from the public network of the Federal District who are duly qualified through training courses or with specific training. The practices are present at all levels of care.
“In primary care, there are community health agents, basic health units with open doors and clinics with multidisciplinary teams, which promote individual and collective activities. In secondary care, health professionals include, in the therapeutic plan, the practices that best suit the user’s needs. And, in tertiary care, the population participates in the modalities offered in each unit”, explains the manager of Integrative Health Practices (PIS) at SES-DF, Cristian da Cruz Silva.
PIS bring together views of the world, the human being and the process of illness and health, placing the individual as the protagonist. “The subject is the protagonist of relationships with himself, with the community, with the unified health system and with the environment. It is in these relationships, and not just in medicines, that the true process of health promotion is found”, adds Silva.
With information from Agência Brasília
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