OBJECTIVE:
To analyze Home Care as a tool for strengthening comprehensiveness of care in the context of the Health Care Network.
METHODS:
A multiple case study with a qualitative nature undertaken through interviews with semi-structured scripts, between June and October 2012 in the health services of three municipalities in Minas Gerais. Thematic content analysis was used.
RESULTS:
The results showed strengths and weaknesses of the Home Care in the context of the Health Care Network. The presence of meanings of comprehensiveness in the practices of the Home Care professionals was evidenced. Informational continuity as a management mechanism favors the articulation of the services in the perspective of comprehensiveness. The Home Visit, in the Family Health Strategy, is marked by challenges to be overcome with a view to its consolidation, and still has weak points.
CONCLUSION:
Home Care constitutes an important strategy for achieving practices grounded in comprehensiveness.
Nursing; Comprehensive Health Care; Home Care Services; Health Systems