The historical trajectory of the domiciliary visiting in Brazil: a bibliography revision

Abstract

The domiciliary visiting (DV) represents an important instrument to nursing practice in collective health, especially in the Family´s Health Strategy. It is about a bibliography revision that aims to contextualize historically the practice of DV in  health in Brazil as well as its articulation with the different assistential models adopted in the country. This study was made between August/September of 2006, in the bases of LILACS, SciELO and BDENF using: domiciliary visiting and home nursing. It is possible to infer in the literature studied that DV, an instrument of work in the public health services, happened in the practice of health assistential services and nursing assistential services at different historical moments. Although its purpose and intensity used as means of work has changed according to the political project previously existent. In the present conjuncture of the health politics and according to the reorganization model of the assistential model, the DV is placed as a possibility of realization of actions in a whole way, since; this instrument allows knowing the social field where each individual/family lives. So, this study makes possible to reflect the way the DV is being done, considering the entire historical and social context in which it has been developed in the field of health services.

Key words: Home visit; Home nursing; Community health nursing.