Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina - Docente LIM/39 - Laboratório de Processamento de Dados Biomédicos, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
This paper presents the analyzis of the interaction between the Family Health Program (PSF) and Bolivian immigrants in the Bom Retiro district of São Paulo, Brazil, through specific experience. To this goal, semi-structured interviews were conducted with Bolivians and healthcare workers at the Bom Retiro PSF, with the particular aim of ascertaining the dimensions of the worlds of work and housing and the great immigratory spatial mobility, thereby requiring flexibility within the cartographic logic of the PSF, with broadening of the concept of family and communicative strategies – hiring of a Bolivian healthcare agent, production of educational material in Spanish and use of Bolivian radio stations –, which would have the capacity to be translated into improved healthcare services.